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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman
Clues across
- Cowhand, having lost cash
on delivery, gets gold for the
whole family (6) - It’s a small world with a sex
hormone (8) - A vegetable that can get you
high in a hurry? (6) - Local ate salad ration (8)
- An attempt to break the
drought using tap perhaps?
(4,5) - Some basic ingredients for
the topping (5) - Good for a Parisian
idol, Caribbean spirit is
instrumental to a slapper (5,4) - Those against any dancing
on Sunday (4) - Pornography must upset (4)
- Laziness is on decline
unexpectedly (9) - Part of a dreadful travesty far
beyond the norm (5) - A Svengali contrived to use
shock treatment (9) - Descendant makes
thousands working (8) - I perch awkwardly to write
cryptically (6)
28. The fellow is taken in by
conservatives and their ideas
(8)
29. Unreal rendering of the
nervous system (6)
Clues down
- Cabinet bored with changes
after hostilities (8) - Union leader involved in
proceedings made a sale (7) - Leading by rather more than
a nose (5) - Evidence of being good but
not the best reveals mild
disorder (6,5) - Excited having drunk Milo
at one (9) - I copy it by carelessly,
providing no transparency
(7) - Medical advisor with a slight
competitive advantage is to
drag bottom (6) - He’s mourning by mistake in
place of health care (7,4) - Forbidden airport arrival is
an alien (9) - Intellectual puts half of brew
in breakfast food (8) - He meant to change the gas
(7) - Not this and not that but
you’ll get it ... in three
moves (7) - Crackpot eats up egg in a
lump (6) - A thumbs-up on Facebook is
similar (5)
Puzzle No 1068
Solution No 1067
Puzzle No 1459
Clues across
- Since the late 1990s, what
pasture plant has suffered
severe reduction in New
Zealand as a result of a root
weevil? (6)
8/10. Which Italian-born
automobile designer and
manufacturer produced his
“Type 1” in 1898? (6,7) - Surveys show that about half
the people in Iceland believe
in what? (5) - What Dutch cheese is
traditionally sold in round
cylinders with a red wax
coating? (4) - Which lunar module landed
in the Sea of Tranquility in
1969? (5) - What old English silver coin
was worth four pence? (5) - How many bridges span the
Amazon River? (4) - Egypt is the world’s largest
exporter of what fruit? (5) - What language gave us
words trampoline, bankrupt
and influenza? (7) - From the early 1870s, who
(Walter ___) published books
of New Zealand birds that
contained images familiar
to generations of New
Zealanders? (6) - Vanilla comes from the
seedpods of what type of
plant? (6)
Clues down
- What contagious skin
disease is caused by the itch
mite? (7) - What is the capital and
largest town of the Isle of
Man? (7) - Which city hosted the 1962
Commonwealth Games? (5) - Which Shakespeare play
has “hell” within its title
and a main character with
“demon” in her name? (7) - Which car manufacturing
corporation was sold to Ford
Motor Company in 1999,
who sold it to a Chinese
conglomerate in 2010? (5) - What hard plaster coating
is a base for gilding or
painting? (5)
9/14. Whose former husbands
include Nicolas Cage and
Michael Jackson? (4,5,7) - Which West Side Story song
includes “For here you are,
And what was just a world is
a star”? (7) - Who became US president
almost exactly 100 years
after Lincoln’s inauguration?
(7) - What sun-dried brick is used
in hot, dry climates? (5) - What apparatus is used for
making whisky? (5) - In 1871, which city saw the
world premiere of Verdi’s
opera Aida? (5)
Solution 1458 Across: 5 Stook, 8 Bergamot, 9 Moult, 10 Linguine,
11 Clogs, 14 / 16 Fay Ripley, 17 Exposé, 18 Ion, 20 Conga, 24 Flaubert,
25 Pilot, 26 Anecdote, 27 Tokyo.
Down: 1 Ebola, 2 Brine, 3 Kaput, 4 / 6 Joanna Trollope, 7 Oologist,
12 Riroriro, 13 Old Glory, 14 FYI, 15 Yen, 19 Oolong, 21 Hunch,
22 Devon, 23 Steel.
For explanations of previous
cryptic crosswords, see David
Tossman’s blog at http://www.noted.
co.nz/distractions/quiz