Saga Magazine – August 2018

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This month:

Winner Ivan Taylor, Derbys

June’s

General knowledge crossword

June’s

Cryptic crossword

Winner Mervyn Marles, Kent

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD COMPILED USING CHAMBERS DICTIONARY

Cryptic crossword

Down

1 NCO arranged dance – gets

commission (8)

2 Insect finds it hot in fall ( 5 )

4 Request accepted, be given

seal (6)

5 Odd item on a shelf – it has

legs for arms (3, 4 , 2 ,3)

6 Nick beset by vermin,

a source of disease (7)

7 Flowing water comes from

river, not well (4)

8 Does it require a doctor’s

house-call? (12)

12 Purchase endless drink,

drinking continually (8)

14 Great reception having

arisen it eggs on guards (7)

16 Mad when caught by silly

point (6)

18 Patriarch, one with key in

pocket ( 5 )

19 Far from stern?

Fiddlesticks! (4)

Across

1 Financial centre starts to

crash in third year (4)

3 Clock used as soldiers are

made ready (3,5)

9 Contracts for indefinite

number of missiles (7)

10 Be really good at forty,

say ( 5 )

11 Fear arrest (12)

13 Pithy, like garden feature? (6)

15 Withdraw from diocese,

pocketing church key (6)

17 Sailor done with skating –

that’s official but

unimportant (4- 2 - 6)

20 An appeal for high-level

support ( 5 )

21 In the style of scholars in

Birmingham area (7)

22 Looking villainous, the

herald’s left (8)

23 Arrived, after initial switch,

for summit (4)

Word wheel

4-letter words

Ally, anil, auld, dial, dill,

dual, dull, duly, gall,

gild, gill, glad, gull, idly,

lady, laid, lain, land,

laud, lily, ling, lung, nail,

null, ugly, ulna

5-letter words

Align, daily, dally,

gaily, gaudy, gland,

guild, gully, idyll,

inlay, lying

6-letter words

Gladly, lading, laying

7-letter words

Allying, gaudily,

languid, lauding,

lingual

8-letter words

Alluding, dallying

9-letter word

Languidly

You may be able

to find more words.

Add-a-

letter

Edged, gruel, alarm,

viper, agree, twill.

The word is gravel.

Sudoku

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CT 20 3SE. Closing date 31 August 2018

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