Yours Magazine Australia — January 04, 2018

BRAIN GAMES

Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

8.Sign about a fierce

woman (6)

9.Vegetable from battery

farm? (8)

10.Time to rouse (4)

11.Theatre tutor’s old

means of transport (10)

12.Solitary sea lion cub

played (10)

14.Final songs taken to

heart, too (4)

15.Catches parents out

(7)

17.Wasting an award (7)

19.Welsh

icon sounds

like a drip (4)

21.Dish put

onblack

damaged

beaker

before (5,5)

24.

Opportunity

to turn

retiring

senior state

official (10)

26.Fruit

time(4)

27.Onion

ring– one

swallowed by

child (8)

28.The way

to turn and

walk (6)

DOWN

1.Earwig,

thoughline

isn’t rigged

(6,2)

2.Crowning

gloryis hot melody at

party (6)

3.Adored wife initially

gets gold delivered (10)

4.Bombed a U-boat to

cover smear (6)

5.Giant of giant

reputation, enormous for

starters (4)

6.Maybe adore old land

(2,6)

7.Put last of onion in bags

of chips and nuts (6)

13.Bold undertaking to get

in, then use a crowbar (10)

16.Excite again on the

subjectof electronic book

(8)

18.Thoroughly hard sort of

reality (8)

20.Itches to develop

moral principles (6)

22.Initially notices

yawning ladder on new silk

stockings (6)

23.Last conclusion pure

• not using head (6)
  25.Tide turns for
  change (4)

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1.Seven countries in Africa start

withthe letter M – can you name

five of them?

2.At what speed, approximately,

does our planet orbit the sun: 10km

a second, 20km a second or at

30km a second?

3.Which hit TV series co-stars Rob

Sitch (above), Celia Pacquola, Kitty

Flanagan and Anthony Lehman?

4.In Olympic class boxing, at

amaximum of 49kg what is the

lowest weight division?

5.The duet You Don’t Bring Me

Flowerswas a hit for which two

music superstars?

6.What is the official flower of India:

frangipani, jasmine or lotus?

7.Which popular TV show includes

thecharacter Camilla Fortescue-

Cholmondeley-Browne... and by

what name is she better known?

8.Which Nobel prize was awarded

for the first time in 1969: Chemistry,

Peace or Economics?

9.Which iconic Australian fictional

character is commemorated on

the $10 note?

10.Chokito, Violet Crumble, Cherry

Ripe– which is Australia’s oldest

chocolate bar?

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