WIN!A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Prevent new travel without end (5)
4. She to call up for varnish (7)
9. Front tier without middle and border (8)
10. Corn for the swans (4)
11. A horse crazy on the beach (6)
12. Notice Tim turning to confess (5)
13. Flow over beast (4)
15. Sum up some twaddle (3)
16. Draw up to part of hospital (4)
17. Wren flies over east to begin again (5)
19. Laugh at terribly less bother (6)
21. Leave out part of Tom itemising (4)
22. Run items out of bus station, for example (8) 23. Some veterans never flip over trap (7)
24. First help Laos badly fish (5)
DOWN
2. Sure to turn up endlessly, after six, with disease (5)
3. End phone call, no longer engaged? (4,3)
5. Heartened her again when all over the place (4,3,5)
6. Substitute doctor to block middle with hesitation (5)
7. I barter differently with judge (7)
8. Newer marital arrangement for non-alcoholic drink (7,5)
14. As Roman changes rower (7)
16. Wish to hold snake that’s irritable (7)
18. Unacceptable to be switched off (3,2)
20. Girl left with subtle glow (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
ACROSS
1. Star of Cats, … Elba
4. Concept, thought
8. Elastic band that keeps socks up
12. Nickelodeon kids’ show hosted by DJ Lance Rock, Yo ... Gabba!
16. Challenged, … them to do it
18. Light-hearted play with songs (7,6)
19. Many-petalled flower, often for Mother’s Day
21. Very small fragment of wood, sharp …
23. Contemptuous expression 24. Surgeons’ knives
26. Internal sac of fluid 28. Receive a salary, … money
31. Wax
