New_Zealand_Listener_09_14_2019

60 LISTENER SEPTEMBER 14 2019

Solution 1536 Across: 1 Pyjamas, 4 Tiber, 7 Cinq, 8 Pretoria,
10  The Gambler, 12/13 Norman Mailer, 15 Damp course, 18 Bifocals,
19  Snag, 20 Aster, 21 Suspect. Down: 1 Picot, 2 Jane Eyre, 3 Scribe,
4/5 To the Manor Born, 6 Realtor, 9 Madagascar, 11 Florence, 12 Namibia,
14 Apples, 16 Eight, 17 E-fit.

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1537 Puzzle No 1146

DIVERSIONS

Solution No 1145

For explanations of previous

cryptic crosswords, see David

Tossman’s blog at noted.co.nz/

distractions/quiz

Clues across

5. Conk out in the exhibition
   stand (5)


6. He is into commercial leases
   for followers (9)


7. Dog eats article in France like
   road kill? (3,4)


8. Place in the aircraft for flyer
   with depression (7)


9. Bread that makes an entire
   nosh-up (9)


10. Former spouse with a great
    deal in return for praise (5)


11. Listener accountant (7)


12. Vagrant put foot into
    laundry machine (7)


13. Clean out the mānuka and
    gorse (5)


14. One who makes savings,
    going swimmingly (9)


15. Give someone a task and a
    quiet place to do it (7)


16. Rubbish about shoe being
    redesigned for the second
    take (7)


17. Tunneller’s mother: war
    criminal (9)


18. Love and endless poetry in
    parts of the play (5)

Clues across

6. Which car’s badge
   featuring a “lion and
   stone” was originally
   designed in 1928? (6)


7. Which Lewis Carroll
   character spoke of
   cabbages and kings? (6)


8. Triton is which planet’s
   largest moon? (7)


9. Which Disney character
   began his career in 1932
   as Dippy Dawg? (5)


10. From what spots on a
    potato do shoots grow?
    (4)


11. Toxic oil from the leaves
    of which New Zealand
    tree was used by early
    farmers as a sheep dip? (5)


12. Which fine coffee is
    named after a Red Sea
    port? (5)


13. Des Moines is capital of
    which US state? (4)
    20/21. After Life, a 2019 British
    black comedy-drama
    TV series, was created,
    produced, directed by and
    starred who? (5,7)


14. What is the underside of
    the eaves of a building?
    (6)


15. The white and the
    Atlantic blue species of
    which popular sporting
    fish are endangered as a
    result of overfishing? (6)

Clues down

1. Which 1960s television
   series features Scott, John,
   Virgil, Gordon, Alan and
   Jeff? (12)


2. What pivoted arm in
   a pinball machine is
   controlled by the player and
   used for sending the ball
   back up the table? (7)


3. What is the longest and
   thickest bone of the human
   skeleton? (5)


4. Which French painter is
   famous for his scenes of
   Tahiti? (7)


5. On what item would you
   find fletching? (5)


6. Which song (The __)
   begins “Speed, bonnie boat,
   like a bird on the wing.”?
   (4,4,4)


7. What were introduced to
   the South Island in 1894
   when 12 escaped into the
   wild from a Christchurch
   enclosure? (9)


8. Who (Alexei ___) was
   Premier of the Soviet Union
   from 1964 to 1980? (7)


9. What small, round
   wickerwork boat covered
   with hides is propelled with
   a paddle? (7)


10. What is “science fiction”
    often abbreviated to? (3-2)


11. What word can follow sour,
    face and ice? (5)

Clues down

1. A mad iron structure for the
   highway (4,4)


2. Pole perhaps the bondsman
   cut off (4)


3. Restrained – very basic –
   house with modern lighting
   (8)


4. A bottle on the writer’s desk
   making a sort of point about
   ruler (6)


5. Pale yellow excrescences
   show up (5)


6. Be in accord with an
   environmentalist lacking
   finish (5)


7. Popular music, for example,
   about unlimited stink is
   rapidly climbing the charts
   (9)


8. Pioneer crossword compiler,
   about fifty (7)


9. Found his table’s not right
   (9)


10. Relieve pain with cooked
    sausage (7)


11. Monkey with oriental uncle
    perhaps (8)


12. Spill latte, woe! Get
    something to wipe it up (3,5)


13. He has right to erupt
    surprisingly (6)


14. Debating chamber or class
    around university (5)


15. Shows excessive affection,
    being close to death to some
    extent when turning up (5)


16. The place to insert change:
    lots! (4)







  

   

    

  

 

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