New Zealand Listener – August 03, 2019

60 LISTENER AUGUST 3 2019

Solution 1530 Across: 5 Snack, 8 Hat-trick, 9 Blair, 10 Eugenics, 11 Igloo,
14  Bat, 16/17 Casino Royale, 18/20 Toy Story, 24 Milky Way, 25 Forte,
26 Life of Pi, 27 Crook. Down: 1 Sheep, 2 Stage, 3 Brand, 4 Acacia, 6 Nell
Gwyn, 7 Chipotle, 12 Dartmoor, 13 Libretto, 14 Bot, 15 Try, 19 Olivia,
21  Skeet, 22 Swift, 23 Syria.

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1531 Puzzle No 1140

DIVERSIONS

Solution No 1139

For explanations of previous

cryptic crosswords, see David

Tossman’s blog at http://www.noted.

co.nz/distractions/quiz

Clues across

1. Old sort of paper reads
   “quietly pray for reform by
   America” (7)


2. Place with an endless sort of
   plague (5)


3. Who has serving girl
   running around? One in city
   (6)


4. Bury sodium left in-house
   (8)


5. Confused suit went ahead
   (7)


6. A model conundrum (5)


7. Writing implement that
   could be red or cyan perhaps
   (6)


8. The ordinary bloke may
   never collapse (8)


9. Single woman makes priest
   dance around poles (8)


10. Indulge with top piece of
    mullet wrapped in newsprint
    (6)


11. Force politician into garland
    of flowers on return (5)


12. Thoroughly beat the
    competition? Recount
    ordered (7)

Clues across

1. What shape is the pupil
   in the eye of a goat and
   octopus? (11)


2. In 1921, Charlie Chaplin
   threw carnations to the
   crowd from a balcony of
   which London hotel? (3,4)


3. What is open, uncultivated
   grassland in southern
   Africa? (5)
   10/11. In 2001, who founded
   the Frank Sinatra School
   of the Arts in New York
   City, offering high school
   diplomas in six majors? (4,7)


4. In 1957, who replaced
   George as the MGM lion? (3)


5. What is the largest member
   of the dolphin family? (4)


6. Towards which direction
   does Earth rotate? (4)


7. For millennia, what was
   used to waterproof sails and
   boats? (3)


8. What Hungarian soup or
   stew of meat and vegetables
   is flavoured with paprika? (7)


9. What is the short tail of a
   hare, rabbit or deer? (4)


10. In 1892, Stanislava
    Belinskaya played which
    lead role in Tchaikovsky’s
    ballet The Nutcracker? (5)


11. Which US state is the
    flattest? (7)


12. At age 13, Jodie Foster
    played Tallulah in which
    1976 film? (5,6)

Clues down

1. Which bird group includes
   ostrich, rhea, emu, cassowary,
   kiwi and the extinct moa? (6)


2. What word can precede
   slate, living and break? (5)


3. What is the largest
   continent? (4)


4. What small, roofed, open-
   sided building in a garden
   provides shade and rest? (6)


5. What has been the
   signature fragrance of
   Yardley since 1873? (8)


6. Around what small
   cylinders is hair wrapped
   to produce curls? (7)


7. What vegetable is a relative
   of tobacco, tomato and
   aubergine? (6)


8. In Superman comics, who
   is Superman’s teenage
   romantic interest? (4,4)


9. In 1947, a New York court
   declared what leafstalk a fruit
   in the US because it is most
   often cooked as one? (7)


10. What small holder might
    be used at breakfast? (3,3)


11. Which 1958 science-
    fiction horror film was
    remade in 1986? (3,3)


12. What is to machine-gun
    from the air? (6)


13. What is the capital of
    Egypt? (5)


14. Which devastating cyclone
    hit the North Island in
    March 1988? (4)
    25. Dior does somehow entrance
    (4,4)
    26. Marine organisation for
    pilots (6)
    27. Blustering bloke hugs very
    good bloke (5)
    28. Suave and refined with a
    gentle disposition (7)

Clues down

1. Parental guidance required
   about what the escapee did
   in crash (5)


2. Depict being left on a ship
   with fish (7)


3. Mars is replanted remarkably
   (3,6)


4. Pigs engage heartless devil to
   pull off a rort (7)


5. Started to smoke like a
   Christmas tree (3,2)


6. A gesture of respect yet
   brusque, certainly when
   upset (7)


7. Car seat is adapted for a
   flight (9)


8. Heading somewhere for a
   fix? (9)


9. One page is encrypted for
   undercover operations (9)


10. Little children with claws (7)


11. One of the unemployed, fast
    asleep? (7)


12. The smallest possible
    killer whale isolated in the
    Mediterranean (7)


13. A bit dotty, fall into weirdo
    group therapy finally (5)


14. Choose leaders to eat lunch:
    egg custard tart (5)





 

   

    

   

 

 

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