New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

CRYPTIC Crossword

- By Jim Greenfield

PICTURE CLUES

9 & 10ac and 24ac

ACROSS

2 To put down deposit

perhaps... ( 7) 7 ...is the way of the Montenegro advertisin­g agency (4)

8 Part of the game was hard (3) 9 & 10ac Its death rate stirs –

stirs up in this movie (3,8,6)

Complete the puzzle to reveal two solutions in the shaded squares relating to the picture clues.

13 Descriptiv­e of the inventor of plastic film? Could be in a movie! (4,4)

15 Part of the truck repairs in the army ( 7)

16 Choose, but I keep quiet about it being the best ( 7) 20 Have a game of tug of war with the sergeants? I had to override the order (4,4)

23 The cost of producing eggs? (6)

24 You may ponder about a good invention in this movie (6,5)

25 The supporter could be an extractor version (3) 27 A sanction on the Italian car (4)

28 The worldly lonely hearts Olsen left ( 7)

DOWN

1 & 26dn Disappear like

non-fast colours (4,4)

2 PC Hattie was pitiful (8)

3 A red card for the departure

party (4,3)

4 Kid the student with the plant (6) 5 Yet it is not formal wear for women (5,5) 6 A strong wind from the north with a lead sulphide (6) 11 Returned from Georgetown with some eggs (3)

12 Tailed Ivan to discredit (10) 14 Mirror I machine around the edge (3) 15 Bob gets up to eat (3) 17 The genuine drink reportedly is one of my assets (8)

18 There is a French and

English article about her (3) 19 The lofty descriptio­n of the tallest building (3- 4) 21 The Maputo piano player was in heaven (6) 22 More tuneful? More windy! (6) 26 See 1 Down

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