Bay Harbour: May 26, 2021

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PUZZLES 21
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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28/5
Across
2. A boy who may go to pot (5)
5. A measure of what one plants on the
ground (4)
7. It is merely that this child has no
siblings (4)
8. Step down might do: no time to
arrange it (8)
9. Setback for French poetry in genuine
setting (8)
11. Something that’s done backwards
and forwards (4)
12. From which people look down on
the court (6,7)
15. One may study a religious portrait
(4)
17. Tug one with 7 that may be remote
(8)
19. May be simmered and dunked in
water (8)
21. Why include the additive number as
it separates from the curd? (4)
22. Cinders, a disreputable woman? (4)
23. Classic race may go ahead in the
States (5)
Down
1. A fillet for the hair also held by a
dandy (7)
2. The hound will give voice in the
recess (3)
3. They are taken by partisans of both
the Left and the Right (5)
4. Sort of meal everybody turns up to,
having a thin plate (7)
5. Being well, it’s what one’s clothes
do (3)
6. Bracing air, a belt of which starts with
oxygen (5)
10. Girl on Ecstasy put up by another
(5)
11. Lady, about fifty, to exchange
caresses with (5)
13. Went over how one was thwarted
(7)
14. Race entrants may be put on the
tables (7)
16. State that takes me in if I’ve got the
hump (5)
18. The royal house rose (5)
20. Urge one on with a lay product (3)
21. Is twisted with worry, at losing the
gold (3)
SUDOKU
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
QUICK CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Lukewarm (5)
4. Instructions for
food (6)
7. Regret (3)
8. Debacle (6)
9. Male feline (6)
10. Cosmetic product
(8)
12. Creative (4)
13. Grizzle (6)
15. Subtract (6)
16. Parsimonious (4)
17. Back financially (8)
19. Emotional shock (6)
20. Refrigerator (US) (6)
22. Increase the speed
of an engine (3)
23. Willingly (6)
24. Spooky (5)
Down
1. Process of
experimentation
(5-3-5)
2. Fluid from wound (3)
3. Lets fall (5)
4. No longer working
(7)
5. Military person in
authority (9)
6. Prank (9,4)
11. Escapade (9)
14. Book depository
(7)
18. Inexperienced (5)
21. Hearing organ (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Tepid, 4. Recipe, 7. Rue, 8. Fiasco, 9. Tomcat, 10.
Cleanser, 12. Arty, 13. Snivel, 15. Deduct, 16. Mean, 17. Bankroll,
19. Trauma, 20. Icebox, 22. Rev, 23. Freely, 24. Eerie.
Down: 1. Trial-and-error, 2. Pus, 3. Drops, 4. Retired, 5.
Commander, 6. Practical joke, 11. Adventure, 14. Library, 18.
Naive, 21. Ear.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 2. Basil 5. Foot 7. Only 8. Demotion 9. Reversal 11. Deed
12. Public gallery 15. Icon 17. Outlying 19. Immersed 21. Whey
22. Slag 23. Derby.
Down: 1. Bandeau 2. Bay 3. Sides 4. Lamella 5. Fit 6. Ozone 10.
Ellen 11. Dally 13. Crossed 14. Runners 16. Camel 18. Tudor 20.
Egg 21. Wry.
TARGET
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amidst arid dais dams dart
darts data dims dirt disarm
dram drama DRAMATIST
madras maid midst raid
raids rids said sard staid
triad
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
A T I
R D A
T M S
Good 14
Very Good 20
Excellent 24+
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