CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4481

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Speak in a dog

matic manner 7 More than enough 8 Rent 11 Chief city of the

Ruhr 12 Becomes a

participant 14 Ploy 16 Sickens 19 Broadcasts 22 Attend to the customers in a shop 24 Theatre attendant 25 Courage 26 Astronaut (5,6)

DOWN

1 Competitor 2 Seaport in SW Italy 3 Motionless 4 A layabout 5 Unfortunately 6 Level 9 Composition 10 Fish-eating

mammal 13 Bravery 15 Small trucks 17 Distributed 18 Fool (coll) 20 Weird 21 First letter 22 Soapy water 23 S American

flightless bird

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 To lay down the law - preach! 7 More than sufficient in

samples 8 Hire out easel components 11 Messengers display a city

in western Germany 12 Participates in tenser

segments 14 An action intended to

mislead a manoeuvre 16 Worries about Lisa 19 Sends out layers 22 Work for a mouser very early 24 The bush eradicates a doorkeeper 25 Pull out feathers with resolution 26 A spare candle for a

capsule, perhaps (5,6)

DOWN

1 One who entertains a team

member 2 Panels of a yellow pigment 3 Immobile finer types 4 One who does nothing for a malingerer 5 Regrettably, an exclamation of grief 6 Without variation in the seventies

9 Attempt a test 10 Render watertight from

some of these alligators 13 Hide courage 15 Handy vehicles for

Shoshonean Indians 17 Broadcasted out of disuse 18 One who extracts from an

informal mug 20 To be awesome is uncannily

frightening 21 The first letter from the

Greek’s local pharmacist 22 From early Sunday does

without washing-up water 23 Hear about that which

resembles the African ostrich