National Post (National Edition)
CRYP tIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Large vehicle disturbed
hamster and snake (10) 6 Snakes like swallowing
salt and pepper (4)
10 Dog that hunts vermin
catching large snake (7) 11 Carrying pet cuckoo, provoke snake, perhaps (7)
12 Snaky swimmers’ skins just missing the head (4)
13 Snake resided in wild,
around West (10)
14 Pull on lizardlike
monster (6)
16 Sink back with drink and trade
jargon (6)
19 Snake concealed by skimpy
thong (6)
21 Embracing a nurse, receive gem
(6)
25 Pop reached foolishly for snake
(10)
26 Crow eliminating the last
snakes (4)
28 Ceremonies grasping at
flightless birds (7)
29 Spy group garnering praise
for female name (7) 30 Snake’s first time for antivenins (4)
31 Safer, Delancey is crossed by snake (3-2-5)
DOWN
1 Place to sleep in back of pub is designed to hurt (6) 2 Established new test and went ahead (7)
3 Extract venom from mamba’s head before class (4) 4 Virus“V,” or devious one who makes it? (8)
5 Audience Sparks merited (6) 7 Climb, in a way, and enjoy party (7)
8 Inform about fruit piercing (8) 9 Playing piano outside, concealed like a snake (8) 15 Cupid’s almond-flavoured liqueur on the tongue (8) 17 Sophisticated diners adapted U.S. recipe (8)
18 Hairless, gripping cane clumsily, tried to stay upright (8)
20 Pub worker patters, rambling (7)
22 Leader of troop with stick in front of lair walked over (7) 23 Pure, cold rush (6)
24 Get free space wrongly, by error (6)
27 Speaker of a Celtic language breaking a leg (4)