YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Up-andcoming; 9 Retrace; 10 Raise; 11 Dirge; 12 Enamour; 13 Nicety; 15 Brainy; 18 Plumber; 20 Smash; 22 Shiny; 23 Set fair; 24 Entrance fee. E
Down: 2 Peter; 3 Nearest; 4 Clever; 5 Maria; 6 Nairobi; 7 Trading post; 8 Nearly there; 14 Caution; 16 Rosette; 17 Arisen; 19 Buyer; 21 Awake.
COMPACT CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Inhere, 4 Oliver, 9 Blubber, 10 Twist, 11 Bleak, 12 Vertigo, 13 Cats and dogs, 18 Out of it, 20 Cadge, 22 Penne, 23 Shelved, 24 Remade, 25 Used up. DOWN; 1 Imbibe, 2 House, 3 Rebukes, 5 Later, 6 Voicing, 7 Ration, 8 Driving test, 14 Antonym, 5 Dickens, 16 Copper, 17 Send up, 19 Field, 21 David.
CODEWORD: 1=Y, 2=J, 3=R, 4=T, 5=V, 6=I, 7=S, 8=U, 9=O, 10=M, 11=X, 12=W, 13=P, 14=E, 15=K, 16=D, 17=F, 18=A, 19=G, 20=B, 21=L, 22=Z, 23=Q, 24=C, 25=N, 26=H
MINIQUIZ: 1 Hydrogen; 2 William Wallace; 3 Ipswich; 4 Lech Walesa; 5 Spitfire; 6 Sir Alfred Hitchcock; 7 River Tyne; 8 Missouri; 9 Hippocrates; 10 Mexico
WORD SPIRAL: 1 Song; 2 Gong; 3 Good; 4 Deem; 5 Mask; 6 Kill; 7 Limb; 8 Back; 9 Kick; 10 Kepi; 11 Iris; 12 Smog; 13 Glad; 14 Dash; 15 Hang; 16 Germ.
KEYWORD: Barmaid
CLOCKWORD:
1 Robber, 2 Impair, 3 Temper, 4 Author, 5 Hammer, 6 Armour, 7 Yonder, 8 Winner, 9 Orator, 10 Repair, 11 Terror, 12 Hamper
CELEBRITY: Rita Hayworth
WORD WHEEL: HYDRATING