2020-02-29 New Zealand Listener

52 LISTENER FEBRUARY 29 2020

Solution 1559 Across: 1 Fuselage, 7 Glaze, 8 Mayflower, 9 Ant, 10 Rook,
11 Zimmer, 13 Mekong, 14 Pectin, 17 Amulet, 18 Knot, 20 Sal, 22 The
Chaser, 23/24 Rocky Marciano. Down: 1 Femur, 2 Shylock, 3 Lulu,
4  Gawain, 5 Qatar, 6 Western, 7 Grommet, 12 Annuity, 13 Mansard,
15  Tunisia, 16 Geneva, 17 Alice, 19 Torso, 21 Chic.

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1560 Puzzle No 1169

DIVERSIONS

Solution No 1168

For explanations of previous

cryptic crosswords, see David

Tossman’s blog at http://www.noted.

co.nz/distractions/quiz

Clues across

1. A vague idea for a one-off? (6)


2. Strike by the snack bar (6)


3. Describe at length the value
   of two dollars in 1967? (7)


4. Tell a story, arrant nonsense,
   by Oriental (7)


5. Speeders madly going
   around bend succeed (9)


6. What one must do to a fire
   to begin shooting? (4)


7. Take rubbish back to church,
   set fire to it (5)


8. Leering rudely about one in
   intimate apparel (8)


9. Partner and I combined first
   ingredient in recipe for turtle
   soup (8)


10. There is some virtue to be
    found coming back from
    retirement (5)


11. Techniques used in heart
    surgery (4)


12. Not aware it is held by
    twisting wing nut (9)


13. Spartan leaders of a strict
    curriculum encompassing
    temperance, instilling
    courage (7)

Clues across

1. What is the North American
   term for petrol? (8)


2. In music, what is
   “performed with all voices or
   instruments together”? (5)


3. What is a thermometer
   designed to measure
   high temperatures, especially
   in furnaces and kilns? (9)


4. What pale, blind eel-
   like salamander lives in
   underground streams? (3)


5. In the film Return of the Jedi,
   who reveals his age to be
   900? (4)


6. What has a core of graphite
   powder mixed with a clay
   binder? (6)
   13/14. For his eleventh labour,
   what did Hercules steal from
   a group of nymphs known
   as the Hesperides? (6,6)


7. What is a hen in its first
   year? (6)


8. Since 1844, who has aimed
   to develop a healthy “body,
   mind, and spirit”? (1,1,1,1)


9. What tool is a splitting
   maul? (3)


10. Foolscap size paper got its
    name from a particular
    what, used by an early paper
    maker? (9)


11. Fig trees belong to which
    genus? (5)


12. Racing driver Scott Dixon
    was born in which city? (8)

Clues down

1. What fish is named after the
   man who discovered it in
   Trinidad in 1866? (5)


2. The name of what rolled
   dessert is from German
   “whirlpool”? (7)


3. What tree is a Citrus
   aurantiifolia? (4)


4. What spice was carried as a
   remedy for joint pains? (6)


5. The name for an early
   portable toilet eventually
   became what name for a
   piece of faeces? (5)


6. In 1848, which company
   built Europe’s first long-
   distance telegraph line, from
   Berlin to Frankfurt? (7)


7. What is the large muscle at
   the back of the upper arm? (7)


8. What provides air for a
   blacksmith’s forge? (7)


9. Camelopardalis, “camel with
   leopard spots”, is the species
   name for what? (7)


10. Which fast Brazilian dance
    has partners moving
    erotically in close contact? (7)


11. What was a professional
    “fool” at a medieval court?
    (6)


12. In Thomas & Friends, who is
    “the Small Engine”? (5)


13. What is the national fruit of
    Jamaica? (5)


14. What is the coloured portion
    of the eye? (4)
    24. Badly duped following
    commercial that was logical
    (5,2)
    25. Retailer announces wine
    store (6)
    26. Fly set off repeatedly (6)

Clues down

1. Old flame in sunrise forms a
   connection (5)


2. Pure rot represented by an
   actor (7)


3. Swipe horn, changing
   possession (9)


4. The customary practice in
   America: get older (5)


5. Given up getting on in the
   smithy (7)


6. Hit the lot all over the place
   completely (2,3,4)


7. Famous source of water at
   present in the outskirts of
   Kingston (4-5)


8. Ideologues resist hot stew (9)


9. Demons eat deformed
   roundworms (9)


10. Steal cattle, so I hear, in
    Northland (7)


11. Time ran out for fancy
    clothing (7)


12. Tune I composed: “Join
    Together” (5)


13. Look around youth centre
    for bandage (5)

 





 

  

   

  

 

 

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