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SOLTIMES SEPTEMBER 2013
STANDARD CROSSWORD
coffee break
Down 1 Australian (6) 2 A guarantee or bond (6) 3 Cloth made from flax (5) 4 A Christian recluse (7) 6 Preposterous (9) 7 A deliberate act of destruction (8)
8 Find repugnant (8) 11 Lease (4) 15 A crystal of snow (9) 17 An erosive process (8) 18 Singers (8) 20 Hand warmer (4) 21 A branch of the US military (7) 22 Hunting expedition (6) 23 Assert (6) 26 Pinfish (5)
Down 1 No-one named, I’m returning leech (6) 2 State categorically as sure thing, we hear (6) 3 Quick! Stop eating! (4) 4 Base in Dundalk, a limit (6) 5 Hung good man with part of ladder before being awake (6,2) 6 See 10 Across
Very Hard!
SUDOKU PUZZLE CRYPTIC crossword
CROSSWORD
SOLUTIONS SUDOKU PUZZLE
Sudoku is a placement puzzle. Enter the numbers 1 to 9 in each row and column of a grid, made up of 3 x 3 subgrids. The catch is that each row, column and grid must contain only one instance of each number or letter.
1 Proven innocent (8) 5 Parisian palace (6) 9 Runner (8) 10 Eatable (6) 12 Thorough or vigorous (9) 13 Provide (5) 14 Nature of being (4) 16 Notion (7) 19 Tavern (7) 21 Not quite all (4) 24 Standoffish (5) 25 Prevent (9) 27 A mass of polar ice (6)
28 Make more (8) 29 Imbedded (6) 30 A yellow-brown garnet (8)
9 Set up in stand (7) 10/6/16D Proverbial kitchen advice - “Robin should initially use both heliports” - is more than enough at first (3,4,5,5,3,5) 11 Lack of activity in hesitation, I send thanks round (7) 12 Non-famous peacekeepers are aware of nitrogen (7) 13 Telling? Not if one’s in good New York return (9) 15 Good man (single American) returns diamonds, say (5) 16 Vehicle (cart) flipped on hill (7) 19 Course of action destroying corpses (7) 20 Delete, as in before (5) 21 Well-bred bloke, name ‘Lieutenant North’ for example, returns (9) 25 Make more abrasive, right enough, perhaps (7) 26 Coping and dishing out (7) 28 Loftier, new clover (7) 29 Consume right points inside, being sincere (7)
7 Petrol good as nothing left in England (8) 8 Sleepy state from joint? No sister reportedly (8) 14 Plump? That woman? Cover paternity (10) 16 See 10 Across 17 Primitive calculators as cubes arranged after beginning of April (8) 18 John’s actual first name - Gerald - in confusion (8) 22 “No double-D, Edward” indicated assent (6) 23 First without runs (6) 24 Times of darkness and odd things (6) 27 Area measure in new race (4)
HARD SUDOKU
Across
Across
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
STANDARD SUDOKU
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