Bay Harbour: November 29, 2023

Bay Harbour News Wednesday November 29 2023
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PUZZLES
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. Wearing a beard where kids are around (9)
5. An objection to an outer room in Scotland
(3)
7. Invalid diet for soaks (4)
8. It may be imparting a slant on fishing like
this (8)
10. Their delivery being crude, they will lose
out (3-5)
11. Let it stand correction of a correction (4)
13. Woodcraftsman who was an artist (6)
15. Cricketers in the field one commands
with a weapon (6)
18. Two hogsheads may be filled with
tobacco (4)
19. How to offload bun under difficulty (8)
22. Magnificent, the way rogues go astray (8)
23. Do nothing on the motorway to condemn
one (4)
24. It signifies agreement in every Esperanto
rendering (3)
25. There should be no danger of one getting
the point of it (6,3)
Down
1. What may be nothing to us is a complete
failure (4-3)
2. Instigate one to give me lip like this (5)
3. A small wave from 18 Across moving left
and right (6)
4. Say one didn’t disown one (4)
5. Show one’s annoyance at blister it causes
(7)
6. One is too concise to be intoxicated (5)
9. The left always bar control (5)
12. Marsh, being American, is not the real
thing (5)
14. Files a news story on explosive noises (7)
16. Bringer of sleep to the fellow on the
beach (7)
17. Fun had with broken leg may swallow
one up completely (6)
18. A little gluttonous, where toes are
concerned? (5)
20. Between doctor an operation, nothing
must grow faint (5)
21. They make up a match as one lays the
table (4)
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. Bee colonies (5)
4. Carpenter (colloq) (6)
7. Also (3)
8. Fleet of ships (6)
9. Usual (6)
10. Balderdash (8)
12. Movable part of a
fence (4)
13. Post graduate
research project (6)
15. Pick (6)
16. Car for hire (4)
17. Surround (8)
19. Heavenly (6)
20. Writer (6)
22. Humdrum grind (3)
23. A government office
(6)
24. Wipe out (5)
Down
1. Deaf (4-2-7)
2. By way of (L) (3)
3. Discoloured area (5)
4. Own up (7)
5. Unorthodox (9)
6. Prank (9,4)
11. Belief someone is
guilty (9)
14. Landscape (7)
18. Wooden box (5)
21. Hot drink (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Hives, 4. Chippy, 7. Too, 8. Armada, 9. Normal, 10. Nonsense,
12. Gate, 13. Thesis, 15. Select, 16. Taxi, 17. Encircle, 19. Divine, 20.
Author, 22. Rut, 23. Agency, 24. Erase.
Down: 1. Hard-of-hearing, 2. Via, 3. Stain, 4. Confess, 5. Irregular, 6.
Practical joke, 11. Suspicion, 14. Scenery, 18. Crate, 21. Tea.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Whiskered 5. But 7. Sops 8. Spinning 10. Oil-wells 11. Stet
13. Turner 15. Covers 18. Pipe 19. Unburden 22. Gorgeous 23. Doom 24.
Yes 25. Safety pin.
Down: 1. Wash-out 2. Impel 3. Ripple 4. Deny 5. Bristle 6. Tight 9. Lever
12. Bogus 14. Reports 16. Sandman 17. Engulf 18. Piggy 20. Droop 21.
Sets.
TARGET
akin eking intake kame kart
keratin kern kiang kine king
kite knit krait make maker
making mankier mark market
MARKETING marking mike
mink nark rake raking ramekin
rank remaking retaking rink
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
A G E
T K I
R M N
Good 20
Very Good 26
Excellent 34+
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