New Zealand Listener – August 24, 2019

60 LISTENER AUGUST 24 2019

Solution 1533 Across: 7 Ichthyologist, 8 Charades, 9 Iron, 10 Lübeck,
12  Obtuse, 14 Abs, 15 Velour, 17 Titchy, 19 Tuna, 21 Bergerac,
23  Doughnut shops. Down: 1 Ice house, 2 Starve, 3 Byrd, 4 Glasnost,
5  Ageist, 6 Oslo, 11 Karl Benz, 13 Schnapps, 16 Orange, 18 The Who,
20  Uxor, 22 Rota.

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1534 Puzzle No 1143

DIVERSIONS

Solution No 1142

For explanations of previous

cryptic crosswords, see David

Tossman’s blog at http://www.noted.

co.nz/distractions/quiz

Clues across

1. Arrived by fate in a fabulous
   place (7)


2. Poor recital results in write-
   up for magazine (7)


3. Time a sex change or state (5)


4. Corrupt client is a stiff (9)


5. Tricky term incorporates
   trademark of famous artist (9)


6. Dregs of society embrace right
   to form a disorderly mob (5)


7. Much the same mail is
   sorted by region initially (7)


8. Play about church making
   money once in Athens (7)


9. Finish with leaders of ethnic
   minorities in Croatia found
   in the region (7)


10. Perceive backsliding in endless
    boardgame including the
    mainland and Cheshire (7)


11. Move stealthily using
    publicity by fly-by-night (5)


12. A brief sketch showing a
    digital attachment (9)


13. Mix sago and milk with right
    weights (9)


14. Suggest being easily
    decapitated (5)

Clues across

7. What is a room or place
   where food is stored? (6)


8. What was used for early
   candle making? (6)


9. From 1954 until 1962,
   which aerodrome was home
   to the New Zealand Grand
   Prix? (7)


10. What word heard in court is
    from Latin “elsewhere”? (5)


11. Cuzco was the capital of
    what empire? (4)


12. Which Norwegian
    playwright and poet is often
    referred to as “the father of
    prose drama”? (5)


13. Who is the Roman god of
    doors, choices, beginnings
    and endings? (5)


14. Mt Tate, Mt Haku and
    which other peak make
    up Japan’s “Three Holy
    Mountains”? (4)
    22/23. Which US singer-
    songwriter, one of the
    most significant figures
    in American folk music,
    wrote hundreds of songs
    including This Land Is Your
    Land? (5,7)


15. Published around 1630,
    works by Giovanni Paolo
    Foscarini are the earliest
    known examples of music
    for which instrument? (6)


16. What large deep dish with
    a cover is for serving soups
    and stews? (6)

Clues down

1. Where did King Zog rule?
   (7)


2. What facility is used for
   repairing ships out of the
   water? (3,4)


3. Torquay, site of Fawlty
   Towers, is in which English
   county? (5)


4. The song Willkommen opens
   which musical? (7)


5. What is a tract of land
   staked out by a prospector?
   (5)


6. What old word describes a
   young male suitor or lover?
   (5)


7. In 1987, 193 lives were
   lost when a ferry capsized
   shortly after leaving which
   Belgian port? (9)


8. Singer Billie Holiday was
   given what nickname by her
   friend and music partner
   Lester Young? (4,3)


9. What do Americans call
   their 25c coin? (7)


10. Charles Darwin, Walt
    Disney, Pablo Picasso and
    Paul Newman all kept what?
    (7)


11. What are small divisions of
    a tree branch? (5)


12. Who created the sculpture
    known as The Burghers of
    Calais? (5)


13. Which New Zealand prime
    minister was born in the
    Shetland Islands? (5)
    27. Not a test — not completely
    — showing how one puts
    music on paper (7)
    28. A shade less dark or a match
    (7)

Clues down

1. Supply the Māori with motor
   vehicle to go around (5)


2. Mother at 9am rises to do
   her level best (7)


3. Underdog in a variety of
   roles (5)


4. Article about pub with right
   leaner (7)


5. Related badly to being given
   warning (7)


6. Explain trains I missed not
   running on time (9)


7. Sailor in collapsing arch gets
   a head cold (7)


8. Include two points on
   navigation device (9)


9. Hide knees and hips when
   they collapse altogether (9)


10. Fruit, underweight, in the
    focus of public attention (9)


11. Medic and poet madly
    taking lunch initially: a
    small amount of fluid (7)


12. Weapon used in lesson about
    universal time (7)


13. Advise applying no clues in
    error (7)


14. Don’t move putty as
    replacement (4,3)


15. Contribute bottle opener on
    call (5)


16. Good hen makes real turna-
    round about the end of July (5)





 

  

    

   

 

 

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