CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4090

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Handy 6 Nerve cell 9 Disavowal 10 Falsehoods 12 Climbing

shrub 14 Italian city 17 Deflect 19 Win through 20 Anatomic

DOWN

1 A card player

who cheats 2 Midday 3 Christmas 4 A peer 5 Melody 6 Of fleets 7 Pig sound 8 Absolutely necessary 11 Student 13 Nominate 15 Native

metals 16 At all times 17 Thin, flat,

circular plate 18 Pitcher

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 To be close by is suitable 6 A wallaroo points out a nerve cell 9 Disbelief in lead for a change 10 Tells fibs about some of the ugliest inclusions 12 A kind of Australian banksia

for the rewarewa in NZ 14 Wander about a capital city 17 Turn aside and send

elsewhere 19 To predominate, operate

effectively 20 Architectural when

morphological

DOWN

1 A cheating professional gambler uses a likeable fellow’s musical instrument 2 Twelve o’clock in Reno only 3 Some piano elements for a

Christmas song 4 The nobleman may briefly

appear later 5 Air a piece of music 6 Of bodies of warship’s vans

around the 4th July 7 The sound a pig makes to ring for writing fluid 8 It is vitally important to be indispensable 11 Part of the eye for a scholar 13 Designate a sobriquet 15 Metal-bearing rocks found

in the forest 16 Always the first lady to the

right 17 Indiscernible record 18 Viewers display a

decorative vessel