Sunday News (Zimbabwe)

TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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EASY PUZZLE ACROSS

1 Displays (5) 6 More than enough (5) 9 Catalogue (7) 10 Genuinely (5) 11 Commerce (5) 12 Gaze Fixedly (5) 13 Lowers in rank (7) 15 Favourite (3) 17 Presently (4) 18 Stick (6) 19 Shut (5) 20 Applauds vocally (6) 22 Playing-cards (4) 24 Organ of hearing (3) 25 Make less unpleasant (7) 26 Fast (5) 27 Jargon (5) 28 In the midst of (5) 29 Girl’s name (7) 30 Woollen cloth (5) 31 Maliciousl­y derogatory (5)

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2 Set (6) 3 Type of carpet (6) 4 Pen (3) 5 Leaves out (5) 6 Straddling (7) 7 Lake (4) 8 Set of steps (6) 12 Aquatic mammals (5) 13 Tango, for instance (5) 14 Grass-cutter (5) 15 Small coins (5) 16 Unrelaxed (5) 18 Enquired (5) 19 Invented (7) 21 Famous public school (6) 22 Flier (6) 23 Smoothed (6) 25 Unbending (5) 26 Italian capital (4) 28 Fool (3)

CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS

1 Beastly wreck of a ship (5) 6 It’s down and more than out (5) 9 Knightly lad in pain (7) 10 Take tea inside (5) 11 Fliers in Eastern skies (5) 12 County flags (5) 13 His knock disturbs Tom’s nap (7) 15 Energy of six thousand? (3) 17 Nominally, she may be after an Arab (4) 18 Make things hot in Serbia, possibly (6) 19 Music across the meadow (5) 20 Plant 150 too many (6) 22 Little man at uncle’s? (4) 24 Part of Rose’s person? (3) 25 Red mark allowed (7) 26 Talks wildly of support (5) 27 Material of hidden importance (5) 28 Fishy breathers (5) 29 Servants who don’t have monkeys’ tails! (7) 30 He didn’t merely resemble a baron (5) 31 Happy to cause me some worry? (5)

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2 Dad takes a bit of a stroll as a policeman may do (6) 3 Ancient place, part in S Africa (6) 4 He’s shallow but not slow (3) 5 A school boy in character (5) 6 Don’t they stand out as easy ones? (7) 7 Chaps making up the 11 (4) 8 Game played in nets, possibly? (6) 12 The kind of jump a horse may refuse? (5) 13 Sit by the church (5) 14 Vessel from which nothing’s to slop out (5) 15 Essential to one’s organised existence (5) 16 Intended as a fake Manet (5) 18 Like all those New Zealand strips? (5) 19 Winner at the wedding? (4,3) 21 The sort of lad I, Kelly, can be (6) 22 Say nice things about a spire? (6) 23 Sam keeps healthy on a half of beer (6) 25 A satisfying thing to do with water from lakes (5) 26 In which to store sifted soil? (4) 28 Where Jim’s said to keep fit (3)

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