Waikato Times

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Being so burnt is a shock to be borne (5)

4. Cue calf that could be under sail in the Mediterran­ean (7) 8. Pampering one too much with gold: unit never changes (13) 10. Find an answer to love’s entangleme­nt (5)

11. Have to have been born a woman, a daughter (4)

12. Is well up the scale – of being drunk? (4)

16. Hyde had a windproof garment such as this (5) 17. Benevolent chap in RH plot one sorted out (13)

19. It goes on irritating the right joints (7)

20. Board with switches in a different plane (5)

DOWN

1. GP, able to print something as absorbing as this (8,5) 2. Custom one may turn to one’s advantage (3)

3. T-shirt designed to show it being satisfied with a drink (6) 4. It is something to bow and scrape, but it’s a swindle (6) 5. Soothed by three fifty due to be handed out (6) 6. Willingnes­s to believe it ruled out in the City (9)

7. It’s about star study (ps: Charity also comes into it) (13) 9. Accuracy in price is no substitute for it (9)

13. Lie untidily, with paws flung left and right (6) 14. Deserter is being held by American soldiers for nothing (6) 15. Leave one another as he turns up, the tyrant (6) 18. One’s debit card number may have its point (3)

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