QUIZ
ANSWERSHOW DID YOU
SCORE?
0-4 Dog’s dinner
5-9 Dogged effort
10-13 Top dogACROSS
9 Skid like an amphibious aircraft? (9)
10 Fruit, seafood and beer have double phosphorous (4,5)
12 Weight of potassium oil varies (4)
13 Salt and chalk, a line going round (6)
14 Rust makes old exit have trouble with keys (7)
15 Lint used in location of aphids (5,4)
17 Sealed window weighing virtually nothing (9)
18 Tip over during journey in current (7)
19 Doctor rings graduate first for building material (6)
20 Stuttering at start of operation (1-3)
23 Denigrate feathers, to a degree (9)
25 Rushing to perplex bat (6,3)
26 Cure using colour (4)
27 Jack gets a shilling for every mineral (6)
29 Finally, a moderate paint (7)
32 Flier and warmonger pursue good score (5-4)
34 Soothing and helpful about married university student (9)
35 Writer has lost out in trifle (7)
36 Starving country loses area (6)
37 Horse throwing up dust (4)
38 Mongoose has one, using one munch (9)
39 Clean the beach to have fun (9)
DOWN
1 Fun incentive to get delphinium (8)
2 Energy from America or Russia, say (7,5)
3 Digital protection dossier carried in handbag (4,4)
4 Points to identical seeds (6)
5 I’m chased around port (8)
6 Room for experiment (10)
7 Mother will get a kiss and I’ll get a bone (7)
8 Abandon reported connections to cat (6,4)
11 Called after parking collision (5)
16 Prioritising the first one in anger (6)
19 Last word from the cricket (3)
21 Woman gets fellow ordering free Latin gear (12)
22 Creature has article to mail off (6)
23 I had returned with exciting insulator (10)
24 Asian range of anorak may develop answer (6,4)
25 Confirmation about tree (3)
28 Heard to store underwear in nickel silver (8)
29 Monkey adds note of flavouring (8)
30 Remedy against treasure (8)
31 Last character gets directions to rent outsome hops (7)
33 Ravine starts to give up large calcium hexagons (5)
34 Hurry to take in new nationality (6)
Crossword No.170
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD
1671A, 2B, 3A, 4C,5B, 6A, 7A, 8C,9B, 10A, 11C,12C, 13B