Bay Harbour: August 18, 2021

Wednesday August 18 2021 Bay Harbour News
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. How to get the gen from one nation
(11)
8. She can make it rain, hard, having a
sharp tongue (8)
9. Go angling for the counter used in
game (4)
10. Turns over round middle of passage
to left-hand page (5)
13. Devastation suffered as bear loses
its head (4)
16. Some bad language to be taken in
court (4)
17. With half-luck, be about to be one
playing for university (4)
18. In the Lords he’s not quite before
time (4)
20. One of the sides in a lawsuit has a
convivial meeting (5)
24. Is eleven, and French is around to
make it leave (4)
25. Friend with a twisted tail in residence
so sumptuous (8)
26. It used it? Not if in such poverty (11)
Down
2. Standard exclusion of the Marines (4)
3. Chemical compound made bovine
creature die out (5)
4. It signifies what one has to live on (5)
5. Gather it could turn fine by end of
September (5)
6. Make the moon err (Celsius) with an
accurate clock (11)
7. It comes suddenly and
overwhelmingly with the lightning (11)
11. The time just before the bowler’s
approach (3-2)
12. Command has its own tidiness (5)
14. Looks so ill-favoured as to be
threatening (4)
15. Be up and about in prison (4)
19. Plant a goodly quantity on you and
me (5)
21. Some of it isn’t together (5)
22. Motor put up in race in a stretch of
country (5)
23. In the Foreign Office one is at home
to dry sherry (4)
PUZZLES 19
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Across
1. Tropical fruit (5)
4. Assault (6)
7. Medic (3)
8. Tranquil (6)
9. Natural ability (6)
10. Make uneasy (8)
12. Location (4)
13. Marine mollusc (6)
15. Ought (6)
16. Elderly (4)
17. Private path
leading to a house (8)
19. Painful experience
(6)
20. Serviette (6)
22. Spin out (3)
23. Magazine boss (6)
24. A repeat showing
(5)
Down
1. Good in the garden
(5-8)
2. Yes (3)
3. Skilled (5)
4. Female thespian (7)
5. Instrument for
seeing into space (9)
6. Group of stars (13)
11. Convenient but
improper (9)
14. Young child (7)
18. Close to the centre
(5)
21. For each (L) (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Guava, 4. Attack, 7. Doc, 8. Serene, 9. Talent, 10.
Unsettle, 12. Site, 13. Limpet, 15. Should, 16. Aged, 17. Driveway,
19. Ordeal, 20. Napkin, 22. Eke, 23. Editor, 24. Rerun.
Down: 1. Green-fingered, 2. Aye, 3. Adept, 4. Actress, 5.
Telescope, 6. Constellation, 11. Expedient, 14. Toddler, 18. Inner,
21. Per.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Information 8. Harridan 9. Fish 10. Verso 13. Ruin
16. Oath 17. Blue 18. Earl 20. Party 24. Exit 25. Palatial 26.
Destitution.
Down: 2. Norm 3. Oxide 4. Means 5. Infer 6. Chronometer 7.
Thunderbolt 11. Run-up 12. Order 14. Ugly 15. Stir 19. Lotus 21.
Apart 22. Tract 23. Fino.
TARGET
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filing flight fling gelt genii
gent gift gilt glen glint hefting
hieing hinge ignite ingle legit
length lifting light lighten
lignite ling neigh nigh night
nightie NIGHTLIFE thegn
thing tiling ting tinge tingle
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
L T I
N G I
E H F
Good 19
Very Good 27
Excellent 34+
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