Bay Harbour: July 21, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday July 21 2021
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Across
1. Intensified ache around top of nerve,
in the end (8)
7. It’s funny, to turn over and over after
an old copper (5)
8. Possibly they will be pen-friends in
future (7)
9. A nouveau riche at the beginning of
the rocket race? (7)
10. Punch’s dog may be full of beer (4)
12. It is re query about a palace official
(7)
14. Wise old bird in Gibraltar found on
a boat (7)
17. Where the mail is distributed in
South America (4)
18. Wedding pledge allowed to be seen
growing ahead (7)
21. Gin is simplicity, one is told, as a
prop for the circus artiste (7)
22. Shakespeare said he was sighing
like a furnace (5)
23. A blood-feud to sell – and for the
French, a thankyou (8)
Down
1. Stir things up, go out when about a
hundred, and go east (6)
2. Elevated a feature that’s intellectual
(8)
3. Lack direction being in the wrong
end (4)
4. Make certain sun has moved before
being surrounded (6)
5. A finish to fish that puts an end to
movement (4)
6. Thus refused, at fifty, to have an
insect around (6)
7. Put in, off-side, to start a quarrel (7)
11. Carriage might soundly be
announced by an angry dog (7)
13. One living in the team is torn about
(8)
14. Not often does one count on artist
turning up inside (6)
15. It may be a whistler among the
drums (6)
16. In which, exposure is secret perhaps
(6)
19. A feature of church architecture in a
Corinthian avenue (4)
20. A fat Scottish landowner I left (4)
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. Main artery (5)
4. Typify (6)
7. Carton (3)
8. Abdominal exercise
(3-3)
9. Sweet-talk (6)
10. Stressful (4-9)
14. Orchestral
instrument (5)
15. Amusing periodical
(5)
18. Free of charge (13)
23. Directionless (6)
24. Unprincipled (6)
25. Go wrong (3)
26. Rubber (6)
27. Broken (colloq) (5)
Down
1. Legal defence (5)
2. Coarse (5)
3. Ridiculous (6)
4. Surplus (6)
5. Small and elegant (5)
6. Dig into (5)
10. Mayhem (5)
11. Partial darkness (5)
12. Ballroom dance (5)
13. Criticise (5)
16. Sibling (6)
17. Comment (6)
19. Command (5)
20. Pangs (5)
21. Group of soldiers
(5)
22. Respond (5)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Aorta, 4. Embody, 7. Box, 8. Sit-ups, 9. Cajole, 10.
High-pressured, 14. Viola, 15. Comic, 18. Complimentary, 23.
Adrift, 24. Amoral, 25. Err, 26. Eraser, 27. Kaput.
Down: 1. Alibi, 2. Rough, 3. Absurd, 4. Excess, 5. Bijou, 6. Delve,
10. Havoc, 11. Gloom, 12. Rumba, 13. Decry, 16. Sister, 17.
Remark, 19. Order, 20. Pains, 21. Troop, 22. React.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Enhanced 7. Droll 8. Cygnets 9. Upstart 10. Toby 12.
Equerry 14. Rowlock 17. Lima 18. Ringlet 21. Trapeze 22. Lover
23. Vendetta.
Down: 1. Excite 2. Highbrow 3. Need 4. Ensure 5. Coda 6. Flatly
7. Dispute 11. Growler 13. Resident 14. Rarely 15. Kettle 16.
Camera 19. Nave 20. Lard.
TARGET
afire AMPLIFIER fail fair
fame fare farm fear feral file
filer film filmier fire firm flair
flam flame flamer flap flare
flea flier flip frail frame leaf
lief life lifer pelf pilaf pilfer
rife rifle
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
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L F I
E A P
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Very Good 25
Excellent 30+
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