Western Morning News (Saturday)

Cryptic crossword

-

Across

4 7 8 10 13 14 15

16 17

19 21 23 24 26

Girl with a French friend, possessing taste (6)

Hiding the fact that untruthful­ness is despicable (5,3) Ours includes a cricket club, as it happens (6) Ways of making progress in the garden (5) Further from Rome? (4) Siamese bad hat going to India (4) Foreign boy, Oriental (4) Follow for days? (3) Time to return, if you like (4)

Vessel showing many the way (4) Learning what may be auctioned (9) Courage needed on the roads in winter (4) Guns in backstage American usage (4) Brewers buy bags of it (3) 27 29 32 33 34

35 36

Down

1

2 3

4 5

6 9

11

A measure of pest control? (4) Birds in the music room (4) Unresponsi­ve? Absolutely (4) Ring her for mushrooms (5) Strive to displace the holders (6)

A little waterfall? (8) The fish hawk's outsize prey (6)

Was unaware of processing pelts (5) More than a cuppa (5) In certain ways, the horse provides food (4)

Faint, being now so distracted (5)

Tie things up with a winner to the corner (4)

Bony vegetable? (6) Believe there are letters to revise (6) A hot one makes you cry (3) 12 13 15 16 18 20 21 22 23 25 28 30

31 32

33

Bit of a shindig many of you wouldn't understand (5)

The chap got old but still coped (7) Medical person in Indochina (3) Assume it's the river (3)

The start of a banned clique (6) Biblical character of a house with no fresh water (5)

In time, some fares must go up (3)

In quiet approach, make little sound (3) Brilliance in shrewdly using a key part (6) Start ruffling up the animal outside (3) Thanks for the pen, it's very nice (5)

Child possessing a right to a special hat (5)

Spare girl? (5) Such meat is remarkably pricy (4) Grub to get on with? (4)

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom