Sunday News (Zimbabwe)

TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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ACROSS

1 Fuel (6)

7 Lengthen (8)

8 Snakes (4)

10 “Big Top”

entertainm­ent (6) 11 Communicat­e and

maintain contact (6) 14 Consume (3) 16 Academy award (5) 17 Aquatic mammal (4) 19 Spurious (5) 21 Infection (5) 22 Humorous (5)

23 Pace (4)

26 Flower part (5) 28 Flying insect (3) 29 Factories (6)

30 Outer appearance (6) 31 Very small particle (4) 32 Hinder (8)

33 Last (6)

DOWN

1 Zodiac sign (6) 2 Rogue (6)

3 Minus (4)

4 Jealous (7)

5 Sorcery (5)

6 Allude (5)

8 Region (4)

9 Place (3)

12 Beast of burden (3) 13 Type of fur (5) 15 Carried (5)

18 Artist’s stand (5) 19 Wastepaper basket (3) 20 Man, commonly (3) 21 Bird of prey (7) 22 Supporter (3) 23 Transfer temporaril­y

(6)

24 Side (4)

25 Solemn promise (8) 26 Reel (5)

27 Out-of-date (5) 28 Nocturnal creature (3) 30 Destiny (4)

ACROSS

1 Troubled with tangled lashes (6)

7 Showing timely vigilance (8)

8 Due to drink, we are out half an inch (4) 10 Might Norman have been a miler? (6)

11 Crystal edifice? (6)

16 Leased to a Latvian, we hear (3)

17 Sticks on the staircase, perhaps (4)

19 He makes capital love (5)

21 Fearfully shy (5)

22 Ready to fight for a dream? (5)

23 Sound weak for a time (4)

26 One in a Paisley church? (5)

28 Time of uncertaint­y? (3)

29 It’s hard to get a slippery customer into the pen!

(6)

30 Starts again to get military informatio­n (6) 31 Incites to have something to eat? (4)

32 Ordered in no vague terms (8)

33 They have their roots in Scandinavi­a (6)

DOWN

1 Hit so as to cause me harm (6)

2 Looks happy to go some distance in a ship (6) 3 Were wrecked in a vessel (4)

4 Letters copied and damaged (7)

5 Meat for a cricket side plus one man (5)

6 Music for sportsmen (5)

8 Like an angry joker? (4)

9 Something fishy that won’t hold water (3) 12 Only a game, but it can be seen in bloom (3) 13 See leisure come to an end (5)

15 Poetic pigeon? (5)

18 Gold piece in circulatio­n (5)

19 I’m on the right-hand edge (3)

20 Get away from the little chap in the centre (3) 21 Garden work in regular pattern (7)

22 A dialect word for drink (3)

23 Clever device, though mostly it may be obtuse

(6)

24 Observers of key essentials (4)

25 Affectiona­te signs crossly indicated (6) 26 Actors are deaf to it (5)

27 In which we may safely be belted (5)

28 She gives me a good start (3)

30 Snooker’s revolution­aries? (4)

CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS: 4 Assume; 7, Terriers; 8, Toledo; 10, Cheap; 13, Find (fined); 14, Kepi; 15, Mars; 16, A-LL; 17, Sea-t; 19, Oars; 21, All change; 23, Flee; 24, E-l-gg; 26, RAF; 27, VI-AL; 29, Is-is; 32, Sen-D; 33, L-ento; 34, Divine; 35, Pear-main; 36, Recent.

DOWN: 1, Stick; 2, Creep; 3, Limp; 4, A-stir; 5, Sild; 6, Models; 9, On song; 11, Hew; 12, A-is-ie; 13, Fat-head; 15, M-a/c; 16, Are; 18, Eleven; 20, Ag-Gi-e; 21, Alf; 22, All; 23, F-Amin-e; 25, Bit; 28, In-E-pt; 30, Sneak; 31, Sound; 32, Side; 33; Lark.

EASY PUZZLE

ACROSS: 4, Tables; 7, Receiver; 8, Appear; 10, Donor; 13, Airs; 14, Eats; 15, Alto; 16, Ess; 17, Call; 19, Fire; 21, Ballerina; 23, Dart; 24, Gate; 26, Bed; 27, Even; 29, Plan; 32, Grid; 33, State; 34, Morass; 35, Operated; 36, Lesser.

DOWN: 1, Grade; 2, Scent; 3, Liar; 4, Trait; 5, Baps; 6, Elapse; 9, Profit; 11, Oak; 12, Oscar; 13, Alleged; 15, All; 16, Era; 18, Altars; 20, Inept; 21, Bad; 22, Ran; 23, Devote; 25, Cat; 26, Visor; 30, Lasts; 31, Needs; 32, Gaps; 33, Serk.

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