Bay Harbour: July 28, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday July 28 2021
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. A sense of which enables one to see
the joke (6)
4. A crazy person in a mac is turned
out (6)
9. Ten, on joining, need this to fit into (7)
10. Emerald is the thing to go for (5)
11. The original Arkwright? (4)
12. Fifty in an English river that’s making
no waves (4)
13. It is also undesirably in excess (3)
15. What some pictures show is a long
story (4)
16. Card game fiery monster will have in
the garden (4)
19. A curtsy one takes swimmingly (3)
21. In which one is camping, or has
mind set on it (4)
22. An unaccompanied game of cards?
(4)
24. One more rate-change including
ten (5)
25. In Pietro’s sin, Iolanthe discovered a
composer (7)
26. The spirit is one I leave going east
(6)
27. The middle put out not long ago (6)
Down
1. The milk of it makes mortals
agreeable (5,8)
2. A resort where mother meets the king
on the way in (7)
3. Is not well, and heartless, for one
thing (4)
5. Reasoning it’s a row (8)
6. It is still in a muddle as to how to
bury one (5)
7. In no too strict a fashion for one tying
himself in knots (13)
8. Settle the loan concerning one’s
wages (5)
14. Girl’s religious pamphlet may take
one’s attention away (8)
17. Once it’s made, it can be kept or
broken (7)
18. Be sound asleep? (5)
20. Walter took father to be a writer (5)
23. Man is involved in a tennis lesson
(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. Happen again (5)
4. Whole (6)
8. Hurried and chaotic
(7)
9. Abrupt (5)
10. Matter (5)
11. Popular cocktail (7)
12. Four score (6)
14. Ancient unit of
distance (6)
17. Add to, enlarge (7)
19. Lively dance (5)
21. Greased (5)
22. Neither here nor
there (7)
23. Off target (6)
24. Liquid consistency
(5)
Down
1. Kitchen appliance
(12)
2. School group (5)
3. Withdraw (7)
4. Earnings (6)
5. Private teacher (5)
6. Game played on
ice (7)
7. On purpose (12)
13. Protective eyewear
(7)
15. Authorise (7)
16. Miserly (6)
18. Church official (5)
20. Get up late (3-2)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Recur, 4. Intact, 8. Frantic, 9. Terse, 10. Issue, 11.
Martini, 12. Eighty, 14. League, 17. Augment, 19. Polka, 21. Oiled,
22. Nowhere, 23. Astray, 24. Runny.
Down: 1. Refrigerator, 2. Class, 3. Retreat, 4. Income, 5. Tutor, 6.
Curling, 7. Deliberately, 13. Goggles, 15. Empower, 16. Stingy, 18.
Elder, 20. Lie-in.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Humour 4. Maniac 9. Mortise 10. Green 11. Noah 12.
Calm 13. Too 15. Epic 16. Snap 19. Dip 21. Tent 22. Solo 24.
Extra 25. Rossini 26. Sprite 27. Recent.
Down: 1. Human kindness 2. Margate 3. Unit 5. Argument 6. Inert
7. Contortionist 8. Repay 14. Distract 17. Promise 18. Snore 20.
Pater 23. Isle.
TARGET
atom iota mart matt
mitt moat moot mort
MOTIVATOR motor motto
omit otto ratio riot root rota
taro tarot tart tiro tomato
toot tori tort trait tram trim
trio trot vomit
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
V M A
T T O
R I O
Good 15
Very Good 22
Excellent 27+
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