WIN! A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Following on from a little craft error (5)
4. Scarlet turns on Rick’s crane (7)
9. Faint during a power cut? (8)
10. Ages new ears (4)
11. Mouse goes around south for dessert (6)
12. Dismayed by group going on up (5)
13. Me to get notice of honey wine (4)
15. Schubert holds middle part of wheel (3)
16. Some so slow in Norwegian city (4)
17. Prod right into card game (5)
19. Catch fresh parent (6)
21. One in control of US and late queen (4)
22. Emit rage travelling in move abroad (8)
23. Peculiarity of not even Scottish loch (7)
24. A place in Rod’s streets
DOWN
2. Fool and I turn over sheet (5)
3. Cut out, exercised, cut out hesitation (7)
5. Grovel and munch on inferior pastry? (3,6,3)
6. Enjoys a book, we hear, in grass (5)
7. Chat and let out slave (7)
8. Greets honest, mixed-up comradeship (12)
14. Revealed that former partner posed (7)
16. Oration about Canadian province (7)
18. OK, turned sprinted to holy book (5)
20. Pretended Edward went to Canberra’s territory (5)
SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.
THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
$1000 PRIZE
See ‘How To Enter’ (last page)
ACROSS
1. Grape-based salad dressing, … vinegar
5. Numbered musical work
8. Espresso or cappuccino, eg
11. Orange Chinese fruit
16. Bird of prey’s claw
17. Book series, Little House On The …
19. Berlin-born Hollywood star, … Dietrich
20. Unconventional and slightly shocking
21. Revise text for publication
22. Track for spare trains
23. Companion or chaperone
