New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

CRYPTIC Crossword

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

- By Jim Greenfield

PICTURE CLUES:

11ac & 12ac

7 Agatha Lopez comes with a ring (4)

8 Outclasses unfortunat­ely and will be zero success rates (4,6)

9 Swinging oddly is an omen (4)

10 Del Le Roy is a singing country one (8)

11 Damp so gets a grasshoppe­r native in the workshop (4) 12 Cans a photo of the Native American historic girl in the movie (10)

16 What is a Latin pound? (4) 17 Blubberer has lost beer in the advertisem­ent (5) 18 Irrevocabl­y returns with a bay (4)

19 Allows Seth to be most superficia­l (10)

21 Current from the northeast is spotted (4)

22 Have an opposite discussion (8)

26 Thursday, Ray’s off with a bang (4)

27 Taints pond, this is my judgement (10)

28 An article on military leader for those over there (4) 1 To get a browned back,

I’ve got a strange shrub in the local forest (6,4) 2 Sounds like hospital section at the bottom end of the stairway? (8)

3 Notice some of the pan pipes pygmies play (4) 4 Account Edward had was not returnable (4)

5 With the switch turned to maximum it was unrestrain­ed (4-2)

6 The girl from Keren, Eritrea has returned (4)

12 What Picasso and Escabar have in common (5)

13 It is a slide found in the shed in the church (5)

14 Put on the same clothes everyday? (5)

15 Endure vast changes on escapades (10)

18 Can be maintained with a belt (8)

20 Really enjoying the French wine found in a log (6)

23 I am aware of some parts of Toronto (4)

24 Bound to get tight if walked on (4)

25 1000 have anger about the chieftain (4)

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