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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Che joins me on Southern plot (6)
5. Good name of salesperson sitting on ute (6)
8. Clarity – I’d take it to be held by Lucy (8)
9. Type of little albatross held up (4)
10. Circle, slowly, endlessly by Norwegian city (4)
11. Score too highly then scoffed too much on right (8)
12. Castaway and crew so noisy (6)
13. Devout petition for each holding Ray (6)
15. More dice thrown is average (8)
18. Little Kangaroo loud on top (4)
19. Unattractive guy turns on left (4)
20. Joseph’s partner to touch down in US state (8)
21. Vital icing is in sloping font (6)
22. Sordid to try to hold twisted wad (6)
DOWN
2. Wait we hear, on boat for boxing division (13)
3. Journalists’ new steroid (7)
4. Embodiment of epic tome without cover initially (7)
5. Her position on my return with poem (5)
6. Model’s puzzling question (5)
7. Book-marking act is enough to drive one round the bend! (4,3,6)
13. Italian clown to rot on jetty (7)
14. Broadcast wolf returning on breeze (7)
16. Idol talked of lovely country scene (5)
17. Funny company with tailless mice (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
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ACROSS
1. Dripping wet
6. Messenger bird, carrier …
11. Appeal, issue a …
13. High fashion, haute …
15. Vindicated, … a wrong
17. Spacecraft’s return to Earth (2-5)
18. Disgrace, dishonour
19. Gruelling
21. Perfume, … de Cologne
23. Clueless star, … Silverstone
25. In no way (3,2,3)