CROSSWORD
Combo Cross No. 4481
Straight Clues ACROSS
1 Speak in a dog
matic manner 7 More than enough 8 Rent 11 Chief city of the
Ruhr 12 Becomes a
participant 14 Ploy 16 Sickens 19 Broadcasts 22 Attend to the customers in a shop 24 Theatre attendant 25 Courage 26 Astronaut (5,6)
DOWN
1 Competitor 2 Seaport in SW Italy 3 Motionless 4 A layabout 5 Unfortunately 6 Level 9 Composition 10 Fish-eating
mammal 13 Bravery 15 Small trucks 17 Distributed 18 Fool (coll) 20 Weird 21 First letter 22 Soapy water 23 S American
flightless bird
Cryptic Clues ACROSS
1 To lay down the law - preach! 7 More than sufficient in
samples 8 Hire out easel components 11 Messengers display a city
in western Germany 12 Participates in tenser
segments 14 An action intended to
mislead a manoeuvre 16 Worries about Lisa 19 Sends out layers 22 Work for a mouser very early 24 The bush eradicates a doorkeeper 25 Pull out feathers with resolution 26 A spare candle for a
capsule, perhaps (5,6)
DOWN
1 One who entertains a team
member 2 Panels of a yellow pigment 3 Immobile finer types 4 One who does nothing for a malingerer 5 Regrettably, an exclamation of grief 6 Without variation in the seventies
9 Attempt a test 10 Render watertight from
some of these alligators 13 Hide courage 15 Handy vehicles for
Shoshonean Indians 17 Broadcasted out of disuse 18 One who extracts from an
informal mug 20 To be awesome is uncannily
frightening 21 The first letter from the
Greek’s local pharmacist 22 From early Sunday does
without washing-up water 23 Hear about that which
resembles the African ostrich