10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7. Mad (6)
8. Tyro (6)
10. Raise (7)
11. Sift (5)
12. Slender (4)
13. Bet (5)
17. Disgrace (5)
18. Unaccompanied (4)
22. Incident (5)
23. Celebrated (7)
24. Sofa (6)
25. Force (6)
DOWN
1. Illness (7)
2. Abstemious (7)
3. Steal (5)
4. Abandon (7)
5. Niggard (5)
6. Cut (5)
9. Opinion (9)
14. Smash (7)
15. Burglary (7)
16. Eternally (3,4)
19. Stop (5)
20. Trivial (5)
21. Deign (5)
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
Across: 1 Inter; 4 Erudite; 8 Serpent; 9
Greet; 10 Room; 11 Mediator; 13 Icon; 14 Plea; 16 Intruder; 17 Main; 20 Night; 21 Tremble; 22 Larceny; 23 Scent. Down: 1 Instructional; 2 Torso; 3 Reek; 4 Esteem; 5 Ungainly; 6 Inertia; 7 Entertainment; 12 Coquette; 13 Integer; 15 Gently; 18 Amble; 19 Mess.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
8 On air to broadcast in
Canadian province (7) 9 Times English is clear (5) 10 Cleaner gets newspaper
(5)
11 Late run changing gear (7) 12 Like clones in citadel
roaming (9)
14 Drinker very tolerant to
start with (3)
16 Shining learner with it (3) 17 Liking forces engaged
initially in battle (9)
19 Mad liar shot officer (7) 21 Composer bringing rapture
(5)
22 Doctor meeting a mum in
exciting situation (5) 23 Fuss after old boy
becomes offensive (7)
DOWN
1 Strange idol with glow
shows kindness (8) 2 Small missile system
thundering (8)
3 Make effort to surround
old city (4)
4 Drink can go cold when
served up (6)
5 Scrap outside local in
France say (8)
6 Blonde female character
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
8 Smallest Great Lake (7) 9 Delete (5)
10 Every 24 hours (5) 11 Impartial (7)
12 Matching (9)
14 Habitual drunkard (3) 16 Illuminated (3) 17 Fondness (9)
19 Naval rank (7)
21 Perfect happiness (5) 22 Theatrical work (5) 23 Lewd (7)
DOWN
1 Benevolence (8) 2 Clamorous (8)
3 Iliad setting (4)
4 French brandy (6) 5 Form of government (8) 6 Equitable (4)
7 Genuine (4)
13 Cricket interval (3-5) 14 Mettlesome (8) 15 Modern wolfram (8)
VAN DER WALT – G. MEYER,
VERWOERDBURG CLOSED 1991 Black played here 1...Bc6 Why didn’t he choose 1...Bxc5 or 1...Ba8 ?
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