Bay Harbour: August 02, 2023

Bay Harbour News Wednesday August 2 2023
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Celebration of this suit is in a state of
nudity (8)
7. Some lions have their self-esteem (5)
8. A large cigar is among the trappings of
royalty (7)
9. May be almost right about human beings
(7)
10. They measured cloth to sell head-to-tail
(4)
12. It could be one’s wife’s child one walks
all over (7)
14. There’s no shade of odds about the
French teams (7)
17. Is not bound to be for nothing (4)
18. Just half OK: be upset by unknown
nickelodeon (4-3)
21. Being in the business of making swaps,
maybe (7)
22. A girl in anger beheaded one (5)
23. Someone one doesn’t know is even more
curious (8)
Down
1. Man on canal boat might agree to follow
blue leader (6)
2. One could control tear with glue like this
(8)
3. It is answered by craft changing direction
(4)
4. A Zodiac sign is standing for one of the
Three Musketeers (6)
5. Mail has to be distributed by capital in S
America (4)
6. About one’s being, one has it on one (6)
7. It will presage one’s being left at sea to
finish it (7)
11. Boy singer, about to start Matins, will get
the shakes (7)
13. A bird that will top the bill with Heather (8)
14. Order one to give some of the women
jointures (6)
15. A piece for half-a-dozen texts composed
with energy (6)
16. Company absorption is, in Summer,
germane (6)
19. Was acquainted with the novel-sounding
(4)
20. Sporting occasion a recidivist turns up
at (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. Soak up (6)
5. Frank (6)
8. Frozen (3)
9. Bitter (6)
10. Outdoor meal (6)
11. Money for the poor (4)
13. Stress (8)
14. Spry (5)
15. Consignment (5)
19. District mail number
(8)
21. Tug (4)
22. Swimsuit (6)
23. Physical work (6)
25. Small child (3)
26. Convulsive exhalation
(6)
27. Horn (6)
Down
2. Pile-up of work (7)
3. Strange (3)
4. Arm muscles (6)
5. Punctuation mark (6)
6. Essential (9)
7. Person travelling over
snow (5)
12. Patience (9)
16. Eat (7)
17. Courteous (6)
18. Riches (6)
20. Bulb used in cooking
(5)
24. Common NZ greeting
(inf) (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Absorb, 5. Honest, 8. Icy, 9. Acidic, 10. Picnic, 11. Alms, 13.
Pressure, 14. Agile, 15. Batch, 19. Postcode, 21. Yank, 22. Bikini, 23.
Labour, 25. Tot, 26. Sneeze, 27. Hooter.
Down: 2. Backlog, 3. Odd, 4. Biceps, 5. Hyphen, 6. Necessary, 7. Skier,
12. Solitaire, 16. Consume, 17. Polite, 18. Wealth, 20. Onion, 24. Bro.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Birthday 7. Pride 8. Regalia 9. Mortals 10. Ells 12. Stepson
14. Elevens 17. Free 18. Juke-box 21. Trading 22. Irene 23. Stranger.
Down: 1. Bargee 2. Regulate 3. Helm 4. Aramis 5. Lima 6. Person 7.
Portend 11. Tremble 13. Starling 14. Enjoin 15. Sextet 16. Merger 19.
Knew 20. Gala.
TARGET
area awake aware away awry
bake baker bakery bare bark
beak bear brae brake braw
bray break BREAKAWAY rake
waka wake waker ware wary
weak wear weary weka wreak
yare year
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
W R A
A A E
B K Y
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Very Good 24
Excellent 30+
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