ANSWERS TO 25 JANUARY PUZZLES
JUMBO PUZZLE Across: 1 Costumes 5 Space 8 Concept 15 Grand 16 Traveller 17 Implore 18 Hearing 19 Return 20 Include 23 Echoes 25 Gradually 26 Sticks 29 Representing 30 Story 31 Fair 34 Listeners 36 Random 37 Chill 40 Ratio 41 Hoping 43 Fastening 47 Barn 48 Allow 49 Improvements 53 Beauty 54 Technical 55 Accuse 58 Leisure 59 Theory 60 Healthy 64 Tonight 65 Offensive 66 Arise 67 Altered 68 Flesh 69 Measured. Down: 1 Cage 2 Spaceship 3 Under 4 Extent 6 Pretending 7 Cultural 9 Origin 10 Capacity 11 Pronunciation 12 Bar 13 Translated 14 Necessarily 21 Fears 22 Writer 24 Electron 27 Meanwhile 28 Primitive 32 Bad 33 Economic 35 International 38 Probability 39 Ant 42 Protection 44 Abroad 45 Immigrants 46 Ashes 50 Naughtier 51 Struggle 52 Cheerful 56 Kettle 57 Severe 61 Leads 62 Win 63 Bead.
Answer: ORANGE BLOSSOM
LINKWORD BACKED, DOUBLE, WASHED, YELLOW, PICKLE, BINDER, MARROW, PURPLE, MATTER, FELLOW. Answer: CAERPHILLY
WORDWISE Acid, acrid, adit, adorn, adroit, anodic, arid, card, carotid, coda, cord, crinoid, darn, dart, diatonic, diction, dint, dirt, drain, drat, droit, idiot, indict, indictor, indri, inroad, nadir, nard, octad, ordain, radio, radon, raid, rancid, rand, rind, road, toad, tornadic, trad, triad, triadic, trod. Answer: INDICATOR
Answer: REAR
Answer: DUCHESS
Answer: CROATIA