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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker CROSSWORD by David Tossman
Clues across
- For a nose job, price tag is
surely mistaken: one euro
missing (7,7) - Cat eats the Maori tribal
symbol (5) - Terrible nightmare, losing
answer, gaining nothing,
being a parent (9) - Immaterial part of garment
(7) - Seaman by himself gets paua
(7) - Started to smoke like a
Christmas tree (3,2) - Rulers seem confused about
the way one might keep
clothes looking neat (9) - Compete with setter
wandering around for a
napkin (9) - Twists and turns and has king
in stitches (5) - New spell from coven is for
beginners (7) - Former girlfriend referred to
as unrestrained (7) - Conservative with majority is
in the Far East on my map (9) - Foreign naval vessel about to
collapse (1-4)
28. Old pedallers had these frying
pans then redesigned (5-9)
Clues down
- An unforeseen difficulty
results in nasty fat lip on
learner (7) - The pilot’s instrument has to
change? About time! (9) - Time for music (5)
- Able to enter contest, not
lacking love (9) - Part of a dreadful tragedy far
beyond the norm (5) - Parts of my hair, not
well defined, are greasy
unfortunately (4,5) - The beast’s horn chopped up
outside India (5) - Coming out with tailored
serge on Sunday (6) - University involved in print
once (9) - Frontman is here with little
hesitation (9) - Vegetable owners etc
distressed (5,4) - Star nearby, sarcastically
funny in motley (6) - Calms down having passed a
test in part (7) - Very old chills and fever are
not clearly understood (5) - Eat the food quickly to make
a mockery of it (5) - Refined touch troubled (5)
Puzzle No 1079
Solution No 1078
Puzzle No 1470
Clues across
- What was the New York City
district where many music
publishers and songwriters
set up shop? (3,3,5) - Steve McQueen’s feature film
debut was in which 1958
science-fiction-horror film?
(3,4) - Both of Brazil’s emperors
were named what? (5) - Used in northern India and
Pakistan, what is a tandoor?
(4) - What style of music was
popularised by Scott Joplin?
(7) - What animal is the Muppet
Rizzo? (3) - In mythology, who could
only repeat the words of
others? (4) - What is a dull persistent
pain? (4) - In a Dr Seuss book, what goes
with green eggs? (3) - In an Uncle Remus story, what
doll does Br’er Fox use to try
to entrap Br’er Rabbit? (3-4) - What is force 8 on the
Beaufort scale? (4) - Chocolate is made from what
bean-like seeds? (5) - Gold and silver jewellery is
sometimes plated with what
hard white rare metal? (7) - What dessert of cake covered
with icecream and meringue
is browned in an oven? (5,6)
Clues down
- More than half of Japan’s hot
spring resorts bar people with
a what? (6) - Zara Tindall is Prince
Charles’s what? (5) - What is a shaft on which a
wheel rotates? (4) - Which prince is the reigning
monarch of Monaco? (6) - What is a text in which all
words containing a particular
letter have been deliberately
omitted? (8) - Schmeck meaning “a sniff” in
which language led to a term
for heroin? (7) - What is a maker of barrels?
(6) - Eight Royal Navy ships have
been given what name, after
the tree in which Charles II
hid? (5,3) - From what did Tom Sawyer
make a smoking pipe? (7) - What word can precede
situation, wicket and end? (6) - What describes a car with
a petrol engine and electric
motor? (6) - Who is Lysander’s love in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream? (6) - What is an assumed identity?
(5) - What black powder is used as
eye make-up? (4)
Solution 1469 Across: 1 Kip Keino, 7 Otago, 8 Mardi Gras, 9 Oil, 10 Apia,
11 Saturn, 13 Hangar, 14 Gravid, 17 Cirrus, 18 Gram, 20 Eel, 22 / 23 Days
of Our Lives, 24 Amaretto.
Down: 1 Kimba, 2 Persian, 3 Eric, 4 Norway, 5 / 6 Aaron Copland,
7 Ossuary, 12 Harrods, 13 HG Wells, 15 Vermont, 16 Yum-Yum,
17 Clove, 19 Mario, 21 Four.
For explanations of previous
cryptic crosswords, see David
Tossman’s blog at http://www.noted.
co.nz/distractions/quiz