CRYPTIC Crossword
PICTURE CLUES
20ac & 1dn & 2dn
ACROSS
7 A song from the aviary, oddly (3)
8 Leave out Tom. I told him admittedly (4)
9 The birds from two directions game to ruddy nothing! (10)
10 Brian left the librarian with Turkish money (4)
11 This city was his origin of species (6)
14 Put her nines, perhaps, in a special receptacle (8) 15 Lazy peepers by the sound of it, but revere them ( 7)
✚✚ Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares, relating to the picture clues. 16 Among relatives a halfbreed is revealed ( 7)
20 Did this movie fade away? Criticise it but is never ending story (5,3)
23 Sounds like an Australian greeting with a weapon (6) 24 They used to be, reportedly, a single humming sound (4) 25 Sounds like they make a knitted percussion instrument in this
Australian city... (10) 27 ...besides the Spaniard is from the southeast (4) 28 Return from data entry to have a meal (3)
DOWN
1 & 2dn Consoling run unfortunately from the Jamaicans in this movie (4,8) 3 Wait for the next plane because the hens have stopped? (3,4)
4 Roman Catholic comes back. Is an after thought to get potato chips (6) 5 Acknowledge hearing the broadcast in a happy manner? Flag it! (5,5) 6 Michael and Ronald shortly in a very small measure (6) 12 Carded every second to total up (3)
13 Oil reservoir made money the hard way (4- 6)
17 What’s taking Pandora to Rio de Janeiro got to do with the musical composition? (8)
18 Egyptian leader with a Greek letter to get a bird (3) 19 Part of the Dunedin flat electrically unsafe. Blow it up! ( 7)
21 Exhilarates without sitar − you can breathe now (6) 22 The result of ground work (6) 26 This tide is low when it is high (4)