The Brain Teaser

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ACROSS

Did they win a prize in the cookery competition? (3,5)

Pop the cat back or neglect the opportunity to do so (4,2)

Heavens! That's why you're eating health foods (3,8,4)

Passed round the new seed container (7) Remains outside in the street in France (7) Current girl of the weight-lifter (8) Having the sense to quote aloud (5)

To free the soldier imprisoned is hard (5) Furious about silly Nigel having been defamed (8)

Crush, or subdue (7)

What the foreigner thought fly-paper was for? (3,4)

Do professorial press-ups (8,3,4)

Did his cruelty make him unhappy at first? (6)

Hides the female in the least ramshackle (8) 1.

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DOWN

Noisy member of the audience, we hear, in a box (6)

Joining in, bit a VIP (9)

Excited to find a road that bordered the river (7)

Need to change the figure, one concluded (5)

Makes oneself useful while the dolt sits about (7)

Stall when you get up (5)

Stops, as before, the openings (8) About fifty pairs go berserk inside seeking revenge (8)

Rebuke the doctor and his mad entourage (8)

And I pour in the strange green syrup (9) Mad fellows armed with jemmies? (8) Spots, when one does some sleuthing? (7) The clothing grant possibly including me (7) Pictures of about fifty players, in groups (6) Change to “now occupied by soldiers” (5) Said there are two letters for him (5)

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers from 1 to 9. There’s no maths involved – solve the puzzle with reason and logic!

Gentle

Moderate Across

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Walk quietly (6) Throw this at weddings (8) Expects (6) Defence plea (5) Grain husks (4) Sport (4) Tolerate, endure (4) Dowel (3) Burden (4) Tumult (4) American leader (9) Flat circular plate (4) Eat dinner (4) Hairpiece (3) Elm, say (4) 29 Walk doggedly (4) 32 Podium (4)

33 Small lump of rock (5) 34 Dessert, informally (6) 35 Marsupial (8)

36 Wears away (6)

Down

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Fragment (5) Slow-moving creature (5) Abominable snowman (4) Jewelled headdress (5) Scheme (4)

Start, beginning (6) Boy's name (6) 11 12 13 15 16 18 20 21 22 23 25 28 30 31 32 33

Auction item (3) Louts (5)

Apart from (7) Clippie's vehicle (3) Container (3)

Any delicious drink (6) Clumsy, incompetent (5) Farm animal (3) Cease living (3)

Be unlike (6)

Put on (3) Hazards (5)

Truck (5)

Lure (5)

Action (4)

Savant (4)

From Plymouth Sound:

Today

0730 Argyll anchor 7 to sea 1000-1300 Albion 15w to BT 1530 Westminster 14w to sea 2030 Argyll sea to Sound

Tomorrow

0800 Argyll sea to Sound, boat transfer