New Zealand Listener - November 5, 2016

62 LISTENER NOVEMBER 5 2016

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DIVERSIONS

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Clues across

1. Old trumpeters (one
   imagines) cooked most ham
   after start of meal (8)


2. Intrinsically copper and
   sulphur turned back into ash
   (2,4)


3. Stuck around, so they say,
   being decorous (5)


4. Grow up, end making stuff
   that goes bang (9)


5. Underrated it by mistake. It’s
   really reliable (5,3,4)


6. It will provide great warmth
   if borne with difficulty (7)


7. Forbear making bird in
   child’s construction set
   (3,2,2)


8. Rimu perhaps chopped by a
   child showing disloyalty (7)


9. Set off with former tramp
   before end of June (7)


10. A declaration turning into a
    fiction (12)


11. All but two of the cricketers
    make 180 (9)


12. One bargain is perfect (5)


13. Silent sort is to join Army
    perhaps (6)


14. Terrible angst with worker
    becoming stale (8)

Clues down

1. Pulverise mother’s heroin (4)


2. Bloke in love? On the
   contrary, so indicate your
   displeasure (4)


3. The Queen has soldier madly
   running around getting
   attendants (9)


4. Henry eyeing unusual
   sanitary arrangement (7)


5. Foil some drowsiness in
   retrospect (5)


6. Bad odours tend to be
   accepted (10)


7. Poor rower hopes for applied
   energy (10)


8. Local drunk, taking last of
   gin, is available for work if
   requested (2,4)


9. Tenancies arranged to
   accommodate bachelor
   showing self-denial (10)


10. Playing international match
    at home with almost the
    entirety of the guts (10)


11. Ignite pot by accident when
    trying to be quiet (9)


12. Tortilla chips provided on
    cash settlement (6)


13. Plead for some left-of-centre
    attention (7)


14. Some of us espied devices for
    setting off explosions (5)


15. Take a punt on a letter from
    Athens (4)


16. Aviator drops one in bed (4)

Puzzle No 1000

Solution No 999

Puzzle No 1391

Clues across

7. Mt Fuji is on which Japanese
   island? (6)


8. Sir Jon Trimmer was
   knighted in 1999 for services
   to what? (6)


9. According to WHO
   estimates, there were 214
   million cases of what in
   2015 and 438,000 deaths?
   (7)


10. What is the turning part of
    an electric motor? (5)


11. What bearded Eurasian
    mountain goat has large
    backward-curving horns? (4)


12. What is a short break from
    work for tea or a cigarette?
    (5)


13. What is an identifying mark
    burned on livestock? (5)
    18/22. Who, in 1962, became
    the first American to orbit
    the Earth and in 1998, the
    oldest person to fly in space?
    (4,5)


14. In physics, what states
    that electric current is
    proportional to voltage and
    inversely proportional to
    resistance? (4,3)


15. Developed in Sweden in
    1892, which pressurised-
    burner kerosene stove was
    based on the design of the
    hand-held blowtorch? (6)


16. What is the stationary part
    of an electric motor? (6)

Clues down

1. Which alpine animal arrived
   in New Zealand in 1907
   as a gift from the Austrian
   Emperor, Franz Joseph I? (7)
   2/3. Eyesight is tested by reading
   letters from what, developed
   by a Dutch ophthalmologist
   in 1862? (7,5)


2. What is the main flavouring
   added to goulash? (7)


3. Which Disney dog first
   appeared in The Chain Gang
   in 1930? (5)


4. What word can follow false,
   flying and kick? (5)


5. In 1992, which Olympic
   sport was introduced with
   men’s singles, women’s
   singles, men’s doubles and
   women’s doubles? (9)


6. Which metal is about 70%
   more dense than lead? (7)


7. What are curiously called
   bathrooms by Americans?
   (7)


8. Established in 1843, which
   European city’s zoo is one of
   the world’s oldest? (7)


9. Which country claims the
   invention of scissors? (5)
   20/21. Who is the UK’s best-
   selling cookery author? (5,5)

Solution 1390 Across: 6 Mercer, 7 Rupiah, 10 Oilskin, 11 Luger, 12 Togs,
13 Fauna, 16 Horus, 17 Cusp, 20 Ether, 21 Italian, 22 Yellow, 23 Pumice.
Down: 1 LM Montgomery, 2 Trilogy, 3 Dekko, 4 Jutland, 5 Wings,
8  Harold Pinter, 9 Andalusia, 14 Bourbon, 15 Tunisia, 18 Chile, 19 Kabul.

For explanations of previous

cryptic crosswords, see David

Tossman’s blog at http://www.listener.

co.nz/cryptic-crosswords