Bay Harbour: September 22, 2021

Bay Harbour News Wednesday September 22 2021
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Order one cord to be made free (5)
4. Old woman will make a thousand
pounds before lunch (7)
8. One at pains, one is told, to see what
he could buy (6,7)
10. It looks forbidding, the back of the
ship (5)
11. It’s a big blow having a lesson
contain it (4)
12. A cardinal point in transformation of
a number of airmen (4)
16. Three-day contest in the seventies 5)
17. Save for charged particle, everything
unknown is not usually seen (13)
19. Coins were given in biblical times for
natural aptitudes (7)
20. To deviate out of here’s possible (5)
Down
1. Where one finds letters of the
afternoon at Ten (7,6)
2. Universal demand on bank for
payment will speedily go (3)
3. Pick nothing the French have a thing
about (6)
4. One over-effusive and well-oiled? (6)
5. Decks the Navy in a sort of soda (6)
6. Extending from column into line, as
might Pole in expiring (9)
7. At which hands are brought together
piously early (7,6)
9. I call it op that in a way is to do with
government (9)
13. River a writer will colour more
intensely (6)
14. Is neglectful, concerning what
doesn’t score (6)
15. How one tolerates tripods (6)
18. Shelter found in terrible, exposed
setting (3)
SUDOKU
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
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QUICK CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Gesture (6)
4. Most peculiar (6)
9. Children’s cough (5)
10. Malice (3,4)
11. Apparent (7)
13. An additional
amount (4)
14. Practical, realistic
(4-2-5)
17. Head and
shoulders sculpture (4)
18. Type of cheese (7)
21. Form a mental
picture (7)
22. Happen (5)
24. Churchmen (6)
25. Restrain (4,2)
Down
1. Holy (6)
2. Sticky substance
(colloq) (3)
3. Fruit (5)
5. Quandary (7)
6. Left one’s own
country (9)
7. Converse (4)
8. Present token (4,7)
12. Vaccinate (9)
15. Zero (7)
16. Rehearsal (inf) (3,3)
19. Run away to marry
(5)
20. Metal often in
sunscreen (4)
23. Tin (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Signal, 4. Oddest, 9. Croup, 10. Ill will, 11.
Evident, 13. More, 14. Down-to-earth, 17. Bust, 18.
Cheddar, 21. Imagine, 22. Occur, 24. Clergy, 25. Rein in.
Down: 1. Sacred, 2. Goo, 3. Apple, 5. Dilemma, 6.
Emigrated, 7. Talk, 8. Gift voucher, 12. Inoculate, 15.
Nothing, 16. Dry run, 19. Elope, 20. Zinc, 23. Can.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Doric 4. Grandam 8. Window shopper 10.
Stern 11. Gale 12. Wing 16. Event 17. Exceptionally 19.
Talents 20. Sheer,
Down: 1. Downing Street 2. Run 3. Choose 4. Gusher 5.
Adorns 6. Deploying 7. Morning prayer 9. Political 13.
Deepen 14. Remiss 15. Stands 18. Lee.
TARGET: amount amour antrum
armour arum aunt auto enamour
erratum euro manure mature maturer
menu moue mount mounter mourn
mourner muon murre mute nature
NUMERATOR outer outran remount
rerun return rout route router rumen
rune runt tour tourer true truer tuna
tune tuner turn turner unmet unto urea
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
R M T
N U A
O R E
Good 23
Very Good 33
Excellent 41+
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