YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Dear Reader,
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic we are suspending competition entries for all our prize crosswords.
Puzzles will continue to appear as normal but no entries will be accepted or prizes given.
We hope to return to normal as soon as possible.
The solution to this week’s cryptic crossword will appear next Saturday as usual.
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Joy Yates, Editorial Director
Across 1
Participating in a piece of the
action (5,4,6)
9 and 10 On the way up showing an
increase in dominance (2,3,9)
11 Galatians travelling behind
oriental to English region (4,6) 12 Man, Australian entering room (4) 14 Dry area for landing? (8)
16 Symbol of prestige? (6)
18 Scoff when excited with dummy
model (4-2)
19 Oriental peas Jean broadcast (8) 21 Exactly like South African myself
(4)
22 Reader to be an underwriter (10) 25 Sentinel eg anticipated part
would not be refined (9)
26 Do as above (5)
27 Little scenery and it’s fairly
unattractive (3,4,2,4,2)
Down
1 Got in and obtained confession
(6,9)
2 Pulsation is cut out (5)
3 Go with sugarier concoction being
fond of company (10)
4 A general raging strong wind (4,4) 5 Sea monster concealed bloomer
(6)
6 Woman that is leaving the BBC (4) 7 Boiler (3,6)
8 Pine away, consume one she took
with a cooked trout (3,4,5,3)
13 Wireless drama set perhaps
before ten (5,5)
15 Lying about with Benjamin short
time afterwards (9)
17 High-pitched river battle (8)
20 Scholar in so great a tree (6)
23 Cricketer I knew originally had method of hand-printing fabrics (5)
24 Dandy be taking gold (4)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION ACROSS:
1 Old Pretender, 9 Oddball, 10 Towline, 11 Sees, 12 and 13 Spearmint, 16 At large, 17 Trigger, 18 La Palma, 21 Solicit, 23 and 24 Rack-rents, 25 Grue, 28 Chorizo, 29 Harriet, 30 The Met office. DOWN: 2 Liddell, 3 Pram, 4 Eclipse, 5 Entrant, 6 Dewy, 7 Ruining, 8 Beat a retreat, 9 Obstacle race, 14 Wryly, 15 Hills, 19 Pick out, 20 Anemone, 21 Satchmo, 22 Cardiac, 26 Wife, 27 Prof.
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION ACROSS: 1 Magnetic compass, 9 Solar, 10 Christian, 11 A tempo, 12 Pellagra, 14 Duty, 15 Welsh corgi, 18 Non-fiction, 19 Odin, 21 Crackpot, 23 Parcel, 25 Eyestrain, 26 Ochre, 27 Stage directions. DOWN: 1 Mustard and cress, 2 Galveston, 3 Europe, 4 Inch, 5 Corner shop, 6 Misplace, 7 Aging, 8 Sensational news, 13 Certiorari, 16 Radicchio, 17 Diskette, 20 Layout, 22 Arena, 24 Once.