Bay Harbour: November 22, 2023

Bay Harbour News Wednesday November 22 2023
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Part of dress old boy returns to chop
up (6)
4. Yacht may be under what painter is
working on (6)
9. Fish any church can get half-over (7)
10. It was a swain with a hey-nonny of fifty
and more (5)
11. At ten cents for a dozen, it’s
commonplace (4)
12. It takes courage to grind one’s teeth (4)
13. Brown will go after those who owe
money (3)
15. Vegetable on sheltered side at top of
kitchen-garden (4)
16. Claim Vera could make it (4)
19. Particle that’s charged in with nothing
in the middle (3)
21. They slither out of the creel, sometimes
(4)
22. At this time the match is over and one
can take no more (4)
24. It’s alternative to a part of a path in
space (5)
25. Make one happy to put it on in the
valley (7)
26. One increases the ranks of the dandies
(6)
27. Interfere with a gong, by the sound of
it (6)
Down
1. With these, the mark of the beast is
imposed (8-5)
2. System of counting mice lad worked
out (7)
3. Rider may take one in hand for a close
cut (4)
5. Grammatical case got from table, via
alteration (8)
6. Six repeatedly find the day brilliant (5)
7. When a young man’s fancy turns to
poise, it weighs (6,7)
8. Third gift my king takes with right hand
(5)
14. Base on which one may be idolised (8)
17. Curvaceous as nude can be in a perch
(7)
18. Gets weary of irises (5)
20. An old coin for the lofty-minded (5)
23. Cost of travel (and food) (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. Entitlements (6)
4. Teeth straighteners (6)
9. School subject (5)
10. Eccentric (7)
11. Unfair treatment (3,4)
13. Chomp (4)
14. Narrator (11)
17. Border (4)
18. Calendar (7)
21. Paua, to non New
Zealanders (7)
22. Commerce (5)
24. Martial art (4,2)
25. Rarely (6)
Down
1. Comment (6)
2. Stomach (3)
3. Sample (5)
5. New and extreme (7)
6. Colour changing lizard
(9)
7. Lone (4)
8. Diluted perfume (6,5)
12. Unsociable (9)
15. Recite effortlessly
(4,3)
16. Wail (6)
19. Unit of measurement
(5)
20. Place a bet on (4)
23. Also (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Rights, 4. Braces, 9. Maths, 10. Oddball, 11. Raw
deal, 13. Chew, 14. Storyteller, 17. Edge, 18. Almanac, 21.
Abalone, 22. Trade, 24. Kung fu, 25. Seldom.
Down: 1. Remark, 2. Gut, 3. Taste, 5. Radical, 6. Chameleon,
7. Sole, 8. Toilet water, 12. Withdrawn, 15. Reel off, 16. Scream,
19. Metre, 20. Back, 23. And.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
cross: 1. Bodice 4. Canvas 9. Anchovy 10. Lover 11. Dime 12.
Grit 13. Dun 15. Leek 16. Aver 19. Ion 21. Eels 22. Full 24. Orbit
25. Gladden 26. Swells 27. Meddle.
Down: 1. Branding-irons 2. Decimal 3. Crop 5. Ablative 6. Vivid
7. Spring balance 8. Myrrh 14. Pedestal 17. Rounded 18. Flags
20. Noble 23. Fare.
TARGET
aver calve carve carven cave caver
cavern clave cleave cleaver clever crave
craven eleven elver enclave even evener
ever lave laver leave leaven leaver leva
levee lever nave navel nerve neve never
rave ravel raven reave reeve RELEVANCE
reveal revel vale valence vane veal veer
vela velar venal veneer venereal vernal
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
L C E
N V E
E R A
Good 25
Very Good 32
Excellent 40+
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