The Edinburgh Reporter December 2019

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FEATURE
December Crossword
Across
1. Part of salvo tends to indicate a
preference for one candidate (4)
3. Make space on keg for this light
food (6-4)
10. Region ruled by urban centre
troubled, yet static (4,5)
11. In a foreign land a chap might be
found in a country house (5)
12. Lightweight snow leopard ? (5)
13. As part of one's burden, fee
bleeds one and makes one weak (8)
15. Invigorated, not aged, and
creating test-tube baby here (2,5)
17. Bags for holiday contains bits of
plug, gag, etc ! (7)
19. Loose nuts lie around this tool (7)
21. Produced patterns on cloth by
this method, yet died horribly (3-4)
22. Sir, speak about activities after
winter sports (5-3)
24. Go round outline of some extra
certificates (5)
27. In the trial I bickered about the legal
defence of being elsewhere, (5)
28. Complete way to outdo aunt in
eccentricity (3-3-3)
29. Change of heart: let go
completely (10)
30. In the sack, a leaf from curly
cabbage (4)
Down
1. Vicious tour ( Non-U ) arranged for
winning side (10)
2. In this spot it annoys a giant (5)
4. In one place boarders are given an
inert medication (7)
5. Needed to end fuel crisis (7)
6. Invest with some quality, but
unheated without hat (5)
7. I can rally round some additional
help (9)
8. Liveliness round lane (4)
9. Set a boss a problem about
fireproof fibre (8)
14. Right in the middle of the
graveyard ? (4-6)
16. Invite POW to express his mental
attitude (9)
18. Enter gig, getting a warm
welcome (8)
20. Go to Seoul, but fail to win (4,3)
21. Scottish emblem grown from the
silt (7)
23. Looking over something, in
Henley, in green (5)
25. Hello and goodbye, both
expressed by a form of halo (5)
26. Part of the agenda taken to mean
information is supplied (4)
Crossword by David Albury
Answers on page 28
The Edinburgh Reporter
Spotlight on Amy Liston Designs
SNIPPETS OF
EDINBURGH NEWS
SOMEONE IS LOOKING FOR YOU!
The Edinburgh Study of Youth
Transitions and Crime research
team at Edinburgh University is
looking for around 4,300 people
who started secondary school in
1998.
These young people were
interviewed every year while they
were at school and have been
followed up from time to time in
the past 20 years.
The new phase of the study will
build on earlier research to find
out how experiences from teenage
years influence lives now.
Is that you?
Were you one of those involved
in the survey?
If so then get in touch with
www.edinstudy.law.ed.ac.uk or @
edinstudy on Twitter
IN WITH THE WOODWORK
One of the UK’s leading furniture
design schools, The Chippendale
International School of Furniture,
has announced the appointment
of Tom Fraser as its new School
Principal.
Former Deputy Principal at The
Chippendale School, Tom takes
over from his father, Anselm
Fraser, who founded the school in
1985.
The school has established an
international reputation as one
of the world’s best woodworking
schools since it opened 35 years
ago. Over 500 students from acro
ss 30 countries have been
supported through its learning
programmes which offer a
blend of traditional and modern
woodworking, all intending to help
students to establish careers in
the furniture-making industry.
Amy Liston is a young Edinburgh
artist whose work you are
definitely going to want to buy.
You will get the chance to see it
at the Christmas Makers Market at
Edinburgh Palette on 7 December
2019.
This is bespoke and unique art
which is produced on greetings
cards, as a framed print or used
to decorate a tote bag. When
you see what she does you will
find it hard to believe that she is
entirely self-taught. A former Leith
Academy pupil, by day she is a
trainee digital communications
executive, but her passion is
her art. She now has a studio at
Edinburgh Palette on London Road
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STR8TS
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where I went to meet her and see
her working.
The designs are often floral,
but all are based in nature and
Medium
How to beat Str8ts –
Like Sudoku, no single number 1 to 9 can repeat in any row
or column. But... rows and columns are
divided by black squares into compartments. 2 1 4 5
Each compartment must form a straight - 6 4 5 3 2
a set of numbers with no gaps but it can be
in any order, eg [7,6,9,8]. Clues in black cells
4 5 2 1
remove that number as an option in that row 4 3 6 2 1 5
and column, and are not part of any straight.
Glance at the solution to see how ‘straights’
are formed.
3 5
2
2
1
1
3
4
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have a catchy quote on them. At
£3.50 upwards for a card this is
affordable art.
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6 8 5
9 4 1
4 9 3 8
1 2 3 7
3 6 4
4 7 2
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numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3
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