Mercury (Hobart)

Crossword:

- CRYPTIC CLUES 14745

ACROSS

2 Clean betting on headgear

7 To no end, be penitent – really!

8 Declared a state identifica­tion

9 Graduate and run outside a large

supermarke­t

1 0 Stone heartless people left out

11 Removes the endless vices for a change

1 3 Sustaining body-building

1 6 Seven singers from Pete’s west

end members

1 8 Draw up a diagram

1 9 Sacred bird found in hibiscus

20 Vassal at the beach say

2 1 Red wine out of a suitcase

22 Fellows who never say no, become

grovellers (3-3)

DOWN

1 Tips over and finishes regular pay

2 Bustle about release perhaps?

3 Each without part time fuel

4 Unimportan­t people – they exist only

in the imaginatio­n

5 I smoke uncontroll­ably for an

arctic dweller

6 First outright bunch of five?

1 2 Brininess has some proposal in it yet

1 4 Consent to the first disorderly fairy

1 5 Renowned admiral from a NSW

bay resort

1 7 Used in fencing and ends up in ease

1 8 First piece by a top performer on

a wind instrument

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

2 Cleaning utensil

7 Authentic

8 Spoken

9 Type of dance

1 0 Bombard

11 Puts out

1 3 Nourishing

1 6 Group of seven

1 8 Design

1 9 Wading bird

20 Feudal slave

2 1 Harbour

22 Sycophants

(3-3)

DOWN

1 Periodic

payments

2 Rent to another

3 Highly organic

soil

4 Nobodies

5 Inuit

6 Tightly closed

hand

1 2 Saltiness

1 4 Sanction

1 5 ... Mandela

1 7 Duelling sword

1 8 Duct

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