Bay Harbour: March 17, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday March 17 2021
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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QUICK CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1. Fever causing one alarm before a
conclusion is reached (7)
5. Prestige counting for nothing in the
gathering dusk (5)
8. With correct reasoning, go and call
one out (7)
9. Now one could start giving it due (5)
10. Is to miss having lad around, getting
the sack (9)
12. A letter to drive off from (3)
13. Weary way one used to get dressed
(5)
17. Some familiar kind of craft made of
wood (3)
19. The marked style in arms men put
out (9)
21. The smallest amount that can turn
stale (5)
22. Physical examination it is claimed is
wrong (7)
24. Sort of material that may be seen in
flow (5)
25. One could add, deer are held in
horror (7)
DOWN
1. Illness that is allowed to surround a
youngster (6)
2. Those who know the law, for
example, in catalogues (7)
3. Turned limo over to the British
drivers’ club (1,1,1)
4. The range of maps held in it (5)
5. Learning how to make old keg new
(9)
6. It is a tendency to go with the current
(5)
7. It makes an impression that will
sound like a young bird (6)
11. Gave a hint of being close with the
duke (9)
14. Showed how it could end vice (7)
15. Secret vote for a formal dance to be
put up (6)
16. Seemed pleased to have made
about fifty dimes (6)
18. Jack takes King at the centre of the
wheel (5)
20. One wandering tribesman might do
man out of it (5)
23. It is owed to two players who
haven’t finished (3)
SUDOKU
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
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Across
1. Muscle spasm (5)
4. Money lender (6)
7. Backchat (inf) (3)
8. Decipher (6)
9. Rotten (6)
10. Expressionless
(8-5)
14. Card game (5)
15. Type of coat (5)
18. Clearly defined
(5-3-5)
23. Elegy (6)
24. Mean (6)
25. Curve (3)
26. Pulpit speech (6)
27. Type of anaesthetic
(5)
Down
1. Trunk (5)
2. Fragrance (5)
3. Promise (6)
4. Above oneself (6)
5. Excessive (prefix) (5)
6. Chosen few (5)
10. Rub hard (5)
11. Ballroom dance (5)
12. Small dog (5)
13. Male duck (5)
16. Long loose tunic (6)
17. Counsel (6)
19. Time off work (5)
20. Milk product (5)
21. Setback (5)
22. Singing voice (5)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Cramp, 4. Usurer, 7. Lip, 8. Decode, 9. Putrid, 10.
Straight-faced, 14. Rummy, 15. Parka, 18. Black-and-white, 23.
Lament, 24. Intend, 25. Arc, 26. Sermon, 27. Ether.
Down: 1. Chest, 2. Aroma, 3. Pledge, 4. Uppity, 5. Ultra, 6. Elite,
10. Scrub, 11. Rumba, 12. Corgi, 13. Drake, 16. Kaftan, 17.
Advice, 19. Leave, 20. Cream, 21. Hitch, 22. Tenor.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Malaria 5. Kudos 8. Logical 9. Owing 10. Dismissal
12. Tee 13. Tired 17. Ark 19. Mannerism 21. Least 22. Medical
24. Tweed 25. Dreaded
DOWN 1. Malady 2. Legists 3. RAC 4. Atlas 5. Knowledge 6. Drift
7. Signet 11. Intimated 14. Evinced 15. Ballot 16. Smiled 18.
Knave 20. Nomad 23. Due
TARGET
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haps hasp heap heaps hoop
hoops hope hopes hops
nape naps neap neaps opah
open opens pane pans pean
peon peso phase phon phone
phones pons pose posh
SAXOPHONE shape shop
snap snoop soap span spoon
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
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O P O
H S X
Good 23
Very Good 29
Excellent 35+
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