CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
42 Dislike and say so in a roundabout way (8)
DOWN
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A potential buyer - American - has the brochure (10) Be forced to partake of (4) Give wrong information out at times about the Society (8)
Hunt madly around. Are going all out to find (7) Beginning to think as you do about the future bout (6,5) Paying one’s bills in the village (10)
The box will do to put the painting in (6)
Rose is the pretty girl in red (8)
The recorder is light (5) It’s not your heart the golddigger wants! (7) 23 25 26 28 31 32 34 35 39 Pull a string to get into “2” (5)
He turns out to be the winner by one point (7)
Like the wind when at its height? (2,4,5) Ended the business of the door’s banging into the wall? (3,1,4,2)
Gun poised, is not as good as one used to be (5,2,3) Understood to have cashed in one’s chips (8) Having got the ale flowing, raised the subject of (8) Since the luau’s been arranged, like always (2,5) About to enter a wild no-go area of America (6) Figure you’ll give the thing a poke (5)
Met me leaving and enquire about a job (4) ACROSS: 1. Alpha 6. Silly 9. Assault (a salt) 10. Worth 11. Act-O-r 12. Teach 13. Save-L-oy 15. Vet 17. Thor
20. Unt-old 22. Pare 24. Tea 25. Starlet 26. Sylph 27. Keba-b 28. Atlas 29. Wouldn’t 30. Stony 31. Tyin-G. Loof-a-H 3. Hatter 4. A-sh 5. Matey 6. Slacker 7. It-Ch. 8. Loo-Ted 12. T-one-d 13. St-out 14. V-olta
18. Death 19. Play-boy 21. New-est 22. Pretty 23. Re-TA-in 25. Spell 26. Sawn 28. Ant (rev.)
EASY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 21 24 It’s been made to go into action, unusually, again (8) Figure it’s overheard (3) Annulled the sentence, perhaps (6)
Trees in the animal enclosure (6)
At a certain stage, said you’d give the job to (7)
You three, right away! (4) The chap at the top of the queue works in a restaurant (4,6)
A pest on the golf course? (8)
Supported right through, when one left the straight and narrow (7)
Go away when you shut up the holes (4)
Stops to give me a hug, which makes it better (6) Ignoring all the red lights and going to any lengths (8,2,7)
Reflecting well on one, though cold and tired out (6)
Pressed into service, is old (4)
On a tar mark, don’t (7) What our case that was lost got left on? (8)
Warn against, for the record, at our time of life (10)
In the same way that you find it pleasant (4) Forces into and thereby does one a good turn (7) Fabric you take a liking to (6)
Inform on a big noise (6) Determined to form a group (3)
Extensive view (8) Prosecute (3) Root vegetable (6) Respect (6) Greedy person (7) Aperture (4) Sop (10) Aircraft body (8) Shade of red (7) Record (4) Provoke (6) Green campaigners (17)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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40 41 42
Funeral car (6) Consumes (4) Unbeliever (7) Unrepairable car, informally (5-3) Imprecise (10) Row (4)
Base (7) Subtle difference (6)
List of business (6) Organ of sight (3) Airliner, informally (5,3)
DOWN
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16 20 22 Fervent (10) Abode (4) Monkey (8) Haggle (7) Diploma (11) Impasse (10) Cringe (6)
12 a.m. (8) Reject with contempt (5) Hatchet (7) Incompetent (5) Teller (7) ACROSS: 1. Emits 6. Deuce 9. Hatched 10. Entry 11. Liver 12. Limit 13. Cracked 15. Rap 17. Race
22. Sari 24. Sin 25. Regales 26. Eager 27. Speck 28. Minus 29. Hexagon 30. Snood 31. Beret
2. Mantra 3. Thrice 4. Say 5. Acrid 6. Deliver 7. Edit 8. Cretan 12. Leapt 13. Crass 14. Acorn
19. Sneaked 21. Pig-Pen 22. Saline 23. Resume 25. Repay 26. Echo 28. Mob 18. Retina 18. De-CI-de 19. Spoor 20. Sprint 15. Rival 15. V-iral 16. Paris 19. Peter 16. Tenet 18. Rower