Bay Harbour: July 05, 2023

Bay Harbour News Wednesday July 5 2023
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Remembrance bloom (5)
4. Hardship may be suffered in such narrow
passages (7)
8. How to beat it for a quid (5)
9. Cars one company uses in island in the
Med (7)
10. One’s objective may be to finish it (3)
11. Vessel with little displacement, but of
service to navigators (9)
12. Tunes that can be self-given with graces
(4)
13. Irritation of a she-dog that loses her head
(4)
18. Medical man consumed his own degree
(9)
20. The fuss with which a party is put
together (3)
21. Insurance calculator takes a cut as ray
shifts (7)
22. Double that led up to it being changed (5)
23. What motorist does at his front gate as
he goes to bed (5,2)
24. Goes on a bike to show what ship does
at anchor (5)
Down
1. Mingled black-and-white, as contained in
a cruet (6-3-4)
2. The spoils a heartless friend puts beneath
him (7)
3. Yes: old though it may be, one sings like a
mountaineer (6)
4. Thus prison may fix tenure of land by
service (6)
5. Try air out for its scarce quality (6)
6. This car is jaunting with whiskey (5)
7. Marksmen supplying the roast her shops
provide (13)
14. Caught by party leader, parted in disarray
(7)
15. They rule one’s conduct with alms — or
they might (6)
16. A ravine any NCO could negotiate (6)
17. The poster needs adjusting, right? (6)
19. React to change and supply the victuals
(5)
SUDOKU
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
QUICK CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Pour over juices during
cooking (5)
4. Evaluate (6)
8. Cocktail sausage (7)
9. Mistake (5)
10. Watchful (5)
11. Zero (7)
12. Disconnect (6)
14. Plan (6)
17. Opening (7)
19. Military walk (5)
21. Sully (5)
22. Traffic jam (5-2)
23. Old coin worth two
shillings (6)
24. Three score (5)
Down
1. To and fro (4,3,5)
2. Strainer (5)
3. Fitful (7)
4. Quantity (6)
5. Fragrance (5)
6. Church ceremony (7)
7. Apt to act at slight
provocation (7-5)
13. Inconsequential (7)
15. Direction finder (7)
16. Diminish (6)
18. Bury (5)
20. Take it easy (5)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Baste, 4. Assess, 8. Cheerio, 9. Error, 10. Alert, 11.
Nothing, 12. Detach, 14. Scheme, 17. Orifice, 19. March, 21. Taint,
22. Snarl-up, 23. Florin, 24. Sixty.
Down: 1. Back and forth, 2. Sieve, 3. Erratic, 4. Amount, 5. Scent, 6.
Service, 7. Trigger-happy, 13. Trivial, 15. Compass, 16. Lessen, 18.
Inter, 20. Relax.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Poppy 4. Straits 8. Pound 9. Corsica 10. End 11.
Lightship 12. Airs 13. Itch 18. Doctorate 20. Ado 21. Actuary 22.
Duple 23. Turns in 24. Rides.
Down: 1. Pepper-and-salt 2. Plunder 3. Yodels 4. Socage 5. Rarity
6. Irish 7. Sharpshooters 14. Trapped 15. Morals 16. Canyon 17.
Sender 19. Cater.
TARGET
delve delves devil devise dive dives
endive envied envies even evens evil
level levels levied levies levin live
lived liven livened livens lives neve
seven sieve sieved snivel sniveled
SNIVELLED veil veiled veils vein
veined veld vend vends vied vies
vile vine
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
N E I
E V S
L D L
Good 18
Very Good 28
Excellent 36+
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