Bay Harbour: April 14, 2021

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Across
1. Bacon joint that may be tied? (6)
4. I’d retired from the neighbourhood, it
being so austere (6)
9. Lack of attention to glen, etc, resulting
from it (7)
10. French cheese, right for producing
wild roses (5)
11. Declines as the tide goes out (4)
12. One given old version of matinée
pin-up (4)
13. A cube that gets thrown will perish (3)
15. Am to be after former partner in
school test (4)
16. A hole, fix, wets get into (4)
19. Fool that the law is, according to Mr
Bumble (3)
21. What one is bound to do is pay it to
the customs (4)
22. Husks, dish of which one will wave
around (4)
24. One may assess it as cross (5)
25. Understand it’s not the words that
were actually used (7)
26. Bird one will have a bellyache about
(6)
27. Being ragged, have it combed out (6)
Down
1. Thinking about log, men can’t tip it
anyhow (13)
2. Sort of libel about, for example, it
being readable (7)
3. Smart fellow making lace of a sort (4)
5. But a tale it may be that one will
reduce to synopsis (8)
6. One rivalled with it, covered in creeper
(5)
7. Old-hat as such a contest for a seat at
election (5-8)
8. Leading scholar misplaces 21 to read
it (5)
14. Riders may be seated by them (8)
17. Game officers who wander round
top of Serengeti (7)
18. What’s left after felling to floor one
(5)
20. Almost tremble, having nothing on
but a military cap (5)
23. Man for one is seen by the French
(4)
Wednesday April 14 2021 Bay Harbour News
PUZZLES 21
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. Tendon (5)
4. Irritated (6)
7. Eggs (3)
8. Barrel maker (6)
9. Inside (6)
10. Gesundheit (5,3)
12. Depend (4)
13. Pager (6)
15. Crowd (6)
16. Capable (4)
17. Infatuated (8)
19. Mob (6)
20. Hurt (6)
22. Florid (3)
23. Double-cross (6)
24. Go in (5)
Down
1. Scapula (8,5)
2. Doze (3)
3. Fret (5)
4. Powdery wood (7)
5. Translate (9)
6. Process of
experimentation
(5-3-5)
11. Month (9)
14. Theft (7)
18. Derogatory (5)
21. Write quickly (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Sinew, 4. Shirty, 7. Ova, 8. Cooper, 9. Within, 10. Bless
you, 12. Rely, 13. Beeper, 15. Throng, 16. Able, 17. Besotted, 19.
Rabble, 20. Injure, 22. Red, 23. Betray, 24. Enter.
Down: 1. Shoulder blade, 2. Nap, 3. Worry, 4. Sawdust, 5.
Interpret, 6. Trial-and-error, 11. September, 14. Robbery, 18.
Snide, 21. Jot.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Collar 4. Strict 9. Neglect 10. Brier 11. Ebbs 12. Idol
13. Die 15. Exam 16. Stew 19. Ass 21. Duty 22. Bran 24. Irate 25.
Mishear 26. Grouse 27. Teased.
Down: 1. Contemplating 2. Legible 3. Alec 5. Tabulate 6. Ivied 7.
Three-cornered 8. Study 14. Saddlers 17. Wardens 18. Stump 20.
Shako 23. Isle.
TARGET
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hint hinting light lighting
LIGHTNING lignin ling
lining lint nigh night ninth
thin thing tiling ting tinging
tingling
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
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L I G
G N T
Good 12
Very Good 16
Excellent 20+
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