Quiz Crossword
ACROSS 1 Cruel or vicious (6) 4 Rustic (5) 7 Dachshund, informally (7,3) 8 Streetcar (4) 9 Sketch (5) 11 Gather together (5,2) 13 Teaching or instruction (7) 15 Prepare to pray (5) 17 Microbe (4) 18 Catching (10) 20 British noblemen (5) 21 Thing (6)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: - 1 Cubicle. 5 Ache. 7 Rug. 8 Dynamite. 9 Ideal. 10 Sack. 13 Have. 14 Guts. 18 Earn. 19 Ingot. 21 High wire. 22 Ran. 23 Feet. 24 Explore. DOWN 1 Light teasing remarks (6) 2 Group of players (4) 3 Endure or survive (4,3) 4 Stiff (5) 5 Colour (3) 6 Easy to lift (5) 7 Military greeting (6) 10 Tolerates (6) 12 Silly and childish (7) 14 That is to say (6) 15 Cutlery item (5) 16 Fasteners for shoes (5) 17 Sudden blast of wind (4) 19 Distant (3) Down: - 1 Carriage. 2 Baguette. 3 Cuddle. 4 Ernest. 5 As much. 6 Hits. 11 Kangaroo. 12 Sentence. 15 Sachet. 16 On fire. 17 Give up. 20 Wide.
ACROSS
7 William A Wellman film starring Carole Lombard as Hazel Flagg (7,6) 8 Lake on the Peru-Bolivia border (8) 9 European freshwater fish having a compressed dark greenish body (4) 10 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey (6) 12 David, 1980 World Outdoor Bowls singles champion (6) 14 1985 stage play by Howard Brenton and David Hare (6) 16 German port at the mouth of the Trave River (6) 18 Catherine, wife of Henry VIII of England from 1543-47 (4) 20 Musical signal given to awaken servicemen in the morning (8) 22 Floating aquatic plant, Trapa natans, having edible nutlike fruits (5,8)
DOWN
1 Officer of Pharaoh in the Old Testament who bought Joseph as a slave (8) 2 Songbird also called a butcherbird (6) 3 Member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru (4) 4 Seaport of Turkey on the Golden Horn peninsula (8) 5 Disease characterised by anaemia that is caused by a lack of vitamin C (6) 6 Tuesday, actress married to Dudley Moore from 1975-80 (4) 11 Plant having leaves divided into three leaflets that is the national emblem of Ireland (8) 13 Jack, 1980 US Open golf champion (8) 15 South African monkey, Chlorocebus pygerythrus (6) 17 Thin pancake folded over a filling of apple, meat or cream cheese (6) 19 Biblical king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (4) 21 Area of low marshy ground in South Africa such as the Umgeni … (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: - 1 Talc. 8 Lorna Doone. 9 Enforcer. 10 Dojo. 12 Wrasse. 14 Spence. 15 Dourif. 17 Saddle. 18 Penn. 19 Epiphany. 21 The Mudlark. 22 Erne. Down: - 2 Alanbrooke. 3 Clio. 4 Gracie. 5 Harris. 6 Pondweed. 7 Hero. 11 Jack London. 13 Suriname. 16 Fields. 17 Seixas. 18 Pitt. 20 Hake.