Diversions & Puzzles

Puzzle No 1613

Clues across

6.

Jack Lovelock, Kris Kristofferson and Bill Clinton received which scholarship? (6)

7. What nationality is former footballer Peter Schmeichel? (6)

10. In 1973, the New Zealand Government sent two frigates to protest French nuclear testing on which Pacific atoll? (7)

11. Bahá’u’lláh was the founder of which faith? (5)

12. Early car makes Oldsmobile and REO took their names from which automotive pioneer? (Ransom E ____) (4)

13. What is to be without or very short of money? (5)

16. What is a joint made between two pieces of wood both bevelled at a 45-degree angle? (5)

17. What river passes through St Petersburg? (4)

20. What is the area at an airport where aircraft can park for fuelling and loading? (5)

21. Petrol for vehicles in Brazil contains about 25% what, produced from sugar cane? (7)

22/23. Which archaeologist became world famous after discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922? (6,6)

Clues down

1. An idiom first used by Shakespeare, what is a pleasurable way of life that leads to a negative or detrimental outcome? (8,4)

2. What is to take a pleasure trip in a vehicle, perhaps without the owner’s permission? (7)

3. What is the national animal of Botswana? (5)

4. Assembled in New Zealand from 1959, under what name was the Fiat 500 sold here? (7)

5. What word can precede meter, beer, well? (5)

8. Who is the dog from Donaldson’s Dairy? (5,7)

9. Which women in Norse mythology pick out dead heroes from battlefields to take them off to live with Odin, the god of war? (9)

14. In Italian, what conventional title before a name is equivalent to Mrs? (7)

15. Which long-running comic strip was originally titled

Li’l Folks but changed its name because there was an existing strip call Little Folks? (7)

18. Which brothers scored 7045 runs between them in test cricket? (5)

19. What is grown on more land area than any other food crop? (5)