WIN! A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7. Terribly toxic going to East, but strange and exciting (6)
8. Well-illuminated? Very clever! (6)
10. Crash into dried grass, then go to bed (3,3,3)
11. Affirmative, opened yesterday (3)
12. Sad after telling fibs in bed (5,4)
14. Stops every other emergency call (inits) (3)
15. You hear sheep (3)
16. Evening dress … bed attire … (9)
18. … sleep … roll up pant endlessly (3)
20. Butchers’ dances often served with spaghetti? (9)
21. Sock her noisily during team sport (6)
22. Ed turns up in morn appearing fresh and new (6)
DOWN
1. Part of toilet halfway deadly (6)
2. Plan in covert manoeuvre (8)
3. I’m aching to move to Detroit’s state (8)
4. Plead to pay on right (4)
5. Unattractive guy goes wild on left (4)
6. Assist moving inertia (6)
9. Chosen mag redesigns Chinese dress (9)
13. Not on downloaded tome or pad (8)
14. Ours meld, melt and burn (8)
15. Fellow sounds like Frank (6)
17. Command not to croon when snooping? (6)
19. Papacy drops dad quickly (4)
20. Men accept one’s bearing (4)
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
ACROSS
1. Illuminate, enlighten
4. Red glowing coals
8. Smile affectedly
12. Lashes
16. Pig sounds
18. Tiny germ, eg
19. Thoughtless, reckless
21. Star of Bones And All and Dune, … Chalamet
23. Deport, send into …
24. Principle, religious …
26. Singe
28. Burden carried
31. Salad dressing, … virgin olive oil
32. Home improvements (1,1,1)
34. Applying, … your expertise
35. Work schedules
36. Din, ruckus
37. Came to a close
38. Ancient
