Gulf News

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 4 If you want something to eat, cry out for a stewed eel! (6) 7 Where, in Canada, a boatman can get out of line (8) 8 Within a fashionabl­e team (6) 10 A capital trophy! (5) 13 Go along and get a little drink outright! (4) 14 It can be worn with a worried air by a school head (4) 15 A word of sympathy for the penurious (4) 16 She gets in shape gradually (3) 17 It’s a setback when a trainee has to bow out (4) 19 Many intend to do physical harm (4) 21 At the seaside, profession­al men get some strange ideas (9) 23 Physical education instead of food (4) 24 Part of a petrol engine (4) 26 Perhaps a fair WPC? (3) 27 Vehicle guided to the bus terminus (4) 29 Support for coppers (4) 32 Lifeless? Precisely! (4) 33 Stop running, thus waste time (5) 34 Wrong about a girl (6) 35 Gone astray, alas, at a great place for bawdiness (8) 36 A mixture of mural work (6)

DOWN

1 Unsuitable to be a friend to saints? (5) 2 Such hi-fi would have been right for an old Peruvian (2-3) 3 Stay there and you won’t miss the bus! (4) 4 Where a business house holds the means of inflation (5) 5 Latest model of something down to earth (4) 6 Get back from uncle’s, perhaps (6) 9 Ordinary little men (6) 11 Is his rottenness a bit academic? (3) 12 Scales requiring a degree of calibratio­n (5) 13 Rose high to the west, where the deer roam (7) 15 Pilot officer Muirhead’s dog? (3) 16 It’s soft, that is, with a crust (3) 18 So less casualties? (6) 20 Taped in expert style (5) 21 Ripe pears can give energy (3) 22 Agreement number 500 (3) 23 Strong central supports for a shelter (6) 25 Coldest part of the mountains? (3) 28 Ensnare a girl with love (5) 30 A drip is bad, so you need to be quick (5) 31 Dramatic possibilit­y of palsy (5) 32 Compact record? (4) 33 Kitchen sink drama? (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1. Tender 7. He-reward 8. Lily 10. Leaves 11. L-ittle 14. Met. 16. Cheer 17. De-er 19. Julie 21. Tenet (rev.) 22. Witan 23. Pi-NT 26. Totem 28. Cab 29. Unisex 30. Docile 31. Inks 32. Ob-trudes 33. H-arm-e’d. DOWN: 1. Tailed 2. D-river 3. R-hys 4. De-fi-cit 5. Paste 6. Adder 8. Lame 9. Let 12. The 13. Lemon 15. L-Una-R 18. Elton 19. Je-t 20. Len 21. Time-out 22. WES 23. Packer 24. Ibis 25. The end 26. Tudor 27. Tilth 28. Con 30. Di-sh.

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