Pittwater Life February 2023 Issue

Pittwater Puzzler
Compiled by David Stickley
29 Statutory body responsible
for counterespionage and for
the collecting of information on
subversive or terrorist activity (4)
30 A sudden unexpected event (8)
Pittwater Puzzler
ACROSS
1 Boggle the mind (8)
6 Item from a restaurant’s
menu (4)
8 Storm (7)
9 Any of various monitor lizards,
typically large and fast-moving (7)
11 ‘Chief of the Broken Bay
Tribe’ (8)
12 A thing conferred as a
distinction, especially an
official award for bravery or
achievement (6)
14 Member of a rowing crew (3)
16 Pop-up skating event held
at the Avalon Beach Netball
court (6,5)
18 One of the world’s largest
ocean swim events held at Manly
Beach (4,7)
22 What a mess! (3)
24 Australian Hall of Fame
basketballer who is a Warriewood
resident, Brad ______ (6)
25 See 7-down
27 Nina Curtis has a passion for
______ (7)
28 Crowds of people (7)
DOWN
2 A short intensive course of
study (7)
3 Alfresco (4-3)
4 Free from suspicion or
difficulty (2,3,5)
5 James Cripps won the Australian
Writers’ Guild’s prestigious Monte
Miller award for his script ____
Rotation (4)
6 Sporting feature found
many times in Rat Park in
Warriewood (7)
7 & 25-across Series of events
held for the older people in the
community (7,8)
8 A prohibition or restriction
imposed by social custom (5)
10 Source of petrol, diesel, and
other fuels commonly (5)
13 An informal printed report
issued periodically to the
members of a society, business,
organisation, etc. (10)
15 Smashed item served on
toast (3)
17 A boat with twin hulls in
parallel (3)
18 Writes software (5)
19 Small pieces of confectionery
made especially with sugar (7)
20 One of the proteins that goes
into Food Stuff’s paella (7)
21 Company who supplies food
for an event (7)
22 Money in the bank (7)
23 They are found in... (5)
26 No doubt a breakfast option
at one of the many seaside cafes
on the Northern Beaches, ____
Benedict (4)
[Solution page 80]
72 FEBRUARY 2023
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