Mega CASHWORD
✚✚ When complete, the shaded letters will reveal a well- known film, TV, book or song title (see mystery clue below).
Be in to win – write your answer on the coupon on page 69. MYSTERY CLUE
18ac & 55ac & 29dn & 63dn. A well-known movie title (1,6,3,5,3) ACROSS
1 Particular features of
something ( 7)
5 Large brass wind
instrument (4)
7 Revenue after deduction
of expenses (6)
11 Sanctioned by law (5)
15 _____ Lloyd, Kiwi TV
presenter on The Project (5) 16 Crisply chilly (5)
17 Synthetic form of plant juice used in manufacture of rubber (5)
18 See Mystery Clue 19 Official residence or office
of ambassador ( 7)
21 Cuts food into small
pieces (5)
23 Animals on farm (5)
25 Rouse from sleep (5)
26 Type of Indian long
grain rice ( 7)
28 Very clever person (8)
30 Three-legged stand (6)
33 Climbing plant with
lobed leaves (3)
34 Naturally occurring
substance that gives
Rotorua its unique smell ( 7) 36 Structures commemorating
people or events (9)
38 Let the cat out of the ___
– disclose secret (3)
39 Deep gorge (6)
42 Widely known and
esteemed (5)
43 Closely compacted (5)
44 Small Mediterranean
fruit with stone (5)
46 Noise made by feline (5)
48 Three-dimensional box
shapes (5)
50 Piece of fabric worn by women over shoulders or head (5)
52 _____ Driver, Kiwi actor
and director (6)
55 See Mystery Clue
56 Strongly principled morality
and honesty (9)
57 Odourless and colourless gas that is main constituent of natural gas ( 7)
59 One circuit of racetrack (3) 60 Large edible fish (6)
62 Hard, dark glass-like volcanic rock (8)
65 Person who analyses statistics and calculates insurance risks ( 7)
67 Major division of long poem (5)
68 Puzzle in which words are represented by pictures and/or individual letters (5) 70 See lower right photo (5) 72 _____ Wines – New Zealand wine company, now known as Brancott Estate ( 7)
75 Fails to function properly (5,2)
77 Grinding tooth (5) 78 Pushes out bottom lip
sulkily (5)
79 Place where buses are
housed and maintained (5) 81 Shabby and squalid (5)
82 Tropical fruit with
orange flesh (6)
83 Lacking brightness
or colour (4)
84 Untidy and incomplete ( 7)
DOWN
1 Joint connecting foot
to leg (5)
2 Review or criticise
severely (3)
3 Insensitive and tasteless (5) 4 _____ ____ Williams,
New Zealand rugby player and boxer (5,4)
5 Slightly warm (5)
6 Broad curving inlet of
sea on coast (3)
8 Local taxes on property (5) 9 Fasten securely in
position (3)
10 Follows movements or
progress of (6)
11 Person’s situation or
destiny in life (3) 12 Thorough medical examination (5-2)
13 Person of great importance and reputation (5) 14 Colourless, watery fluid in blood (6)
20 Disagreeably domineering (5)
22 Nightclub entertainment ( 7) 24 Dolphin famous in New Zealand for playful behaviour in Hokianga Harbour in 1955/56 (3)
25 Becomes enthusiastic
about (5,2)
26 Image of object on radar
screen (4)
27 Test metals to determine
components and quality (5) 29 See Mystery Clue
31 Short knife with a pointed
blade used as weapon (6) 32 Summerhouse in garden (6) 35 See upper left photo ( 7)
36 Humbleness and lack of
conceit ( 7)
37 Corkscrew-shaped curl
of hair ( 7)
38 Salty water (5)
40 Alter to fit new purpose (5) 41 Instance of polite social
behaviour (6)
45 Loose-fitting protective
garments (6)
47 _____ Caves – New Zealand
tourist attraction known for
glow-worms ( 7)
49 Literary genre involving futuristic technological and social changes (3-2)
51 Annual publication containing important dates and statistical information ( 7)
53 Chemically inactive (5)
54 Agile and lively (4)
58 Scaremongers who
exaggerate danger (9)
59 Woody, tropical vine (5)
61 Connection between
two things ( 7)
63 See Mystery Clue
64 Trainee working under supervision to gain experience (6)
66 Conclude discussion (4,2) 67 Manages in difficult
circumstances (5)
69 _____ Martin, Kiwi actress who plays Nicole KruseMiller in Shortland Street 71 Thick, stuffed sofa
cushion (5)
73 Lowest point (5)
74 In appropriate or suitable
manner (5)
76 Enclosure for pigs (3)
77 ___ out – plan course
of action in detail (3)
78 On a ___ with – equal to (3) 80 ___ the question – propose
marriage (3)
(5)