New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

CRYPTIC Crossword

- By Jim Greenfield

PICTURE CLUES

5dn & 13dn

ACROSS

1 A sudden wish from miles up ( 7)

4 Talked about the wheel part? (5)

10 Believable sort of girl (3) 11 What you may call to for notice or troops (9)

12 Make me quit pen for some gear (9)

14 Ada goes away appeased but still has a look (5)

15 Got chastised and bored ( 7) 16 This will relate to a number once the Royal Navy gets involved ( 7)

✚✚ Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares, relating to the picture clues.

19 The angles of letters ( 7) 21 Shame it maybe unbelievin­g ( 7)

22 The cigar man (5)

24 Errors I’ve made with the receptacle... (9)

25 ...so prime it, Vi in a basic sort of way (9)

26 I’m sick of penicillin! (3) 27 Lodges in Northeast Street next to old Bob (5)

28 Road surface brings the snake to a stop ( 7)

DOWN

2 Finding out the size of geraniums (9)

3 The main pest ( 7)

5 This character was drawn from the ship ink pan the rear admiral used, The (4,7) 6 Tanners left Frankenste­in with a utensil (5)

7 Relied upon barcode pen deducing the code inside (8) 8 A stationary noise (6) 9 “Workers found in britches” (4)

13 Let ego trips, for a change create a ghostly showing (11) 17 Perhaps I tailored the current comment... (9)

18 ...they were a number of letters from the “Roman Times” (8)

20 On Saturday go to the railway carriage with a bit of effort (6)

21 They could be what you are looking for here! ( 7) 22 Containers for capsule but not with ale (4)

23 Shows that Bengali, Kenyan & Angolans are quite similar (5)

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