CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN! A SHARE OF $2000
ACROSS
1. Thinner due to vodka? (5,6)
8. Dance in a rut! (6)
9. Handkerchief, it’s crumpled by Sue (6)
10. Stitched up by terrible news (4)
11. Stood up to pair being hypocritical (3-5)
12. Creamy dessert is a small thing (6)
14. Gal to cut horse’s pace (6)
15. Went on when given wages early (8)
17. First cut log for wooden shoe (4)
18. Anne holds former partner in lean-to building (6)
19. First time cigar rolled is very sad (6)
20. Impulsiveness of poor nosy patient (11)
DOWN
2. Horrid agents performing hard bargaining (12)
3. He leaves the horn – to a point! (5)
4. Respect new spirit (7)
5. Opening passage within about fortnight (5)
6. Fit in market booth (7)
7. One who can foresee when your number’s up? (12)
13. Distress signal that causes sudden outburst? (5-2)
14. Got idea for setting out annual plant (7)
16. Cold, lean and spotless (5)
17. Halt crease without right (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. Edible entrails
4. Discrimination against the elderly, eg
8. City in Myanmar
12. Star of Belfast, … Dornan
16. Assume superiority, … airs (3,2)
18. Liable to fly off the handle (5-8)
19. Great Britain’s country (6,7)
21. Adversary, my … in the game
23. Reinterpret, … a hit song
24. Went over again, … your steps
26. Crowds around
28. Listen well, be all …
31. Spare, … capacity
32. Pressure unit (1,1,1)
34. Yoga pose
35. Administered medicine, … with sedatives
36. More ashen
37. Causes
