Bay Harbour: December 20, 2023

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2023 

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Orchard remembers 

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TRIBUTE: 

Owen 

Wright 

(above) and 

Ian Foldesi 

died in the 

February 

22, 2011 

earthquake. 

• By Dylan Smits 

A LONG-AWAITED memorial 

orchard for two Lyttelton men 

who died in the February 22, 

2011 earthquake is finally under 

way. 

Located on the corner of 

Somes Rd and Norton Cl, 

volunteers have been planting 

apple trees over the past two 

Sundays. 

Owen Wright, one of the men 

honoured by the memorial, 

was in Woolston when the 6.3 

magnitude earthquake struck. 

He drove other stranded 

Lyttelton residents up the 

Bridle Path in his vehicle, 

before setting off on foot to 

get home on the other side of 

the hill. 

He was on the Major 

Hornbrook track, 10 minutes 

from his Norton Cl home 

when boulders loosened by an 

aftershock struck him. 

• Turn to page 5 

Password 

trips up 

stranger who 

approached 

young girl 


A MOTHER is urging parents to 

give passwords to their children 

so they know what to do if they 

are approached by a stranger. 

It comes after her 8-year-old 

daughter said she was approached 

by a man after she left school for 

home. She felt a hand tap her on 

the shoulder from behind. 

She turned and saw a stranger 

who said her parents had asked 

him to pick her up from school. 

The incident happened about 

3pm on December 12 near Norman 

Kirk Memorial Pool on Oxford 

St, Lyttelton. The girl attends 

the nearby primary school. 

“I said, ‘what’s the password,’ 

and I was backing up at the same 

time. I didn’t know him. My 

parents wouldn’t send someone 

to pick me up,” the girl told Bay 

Harbour News. 

The girl said he replied: “I’m the 

best.” 

She then ran off. “I turned and I 

spinned my little legs up the hill.” 

She felt “scared, nervous, 

worried.” 

When her daughter told her 

what had happened, the mother 

warned the school and then 

called the police. 

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Farmers Market 

Sunday, 9.30am-2pm 

Greenspace behind SiloStay 

Browse a range of local goods in 

the Christmas edition of the Little 

River farmers market. See the wide 

variety of quality product and fresh 

produce. Visitors of all ages can 

find something to enjoy from the 

live music to the family friendly 

atmosphere. 

Handmade Holidays 

Wednesday to Saturday, during 

opening hours 

Lyttelton Library 

Design your own Christmas gift bag 

with provided materials. Recycle a 

brown paper bag and transform it 

into a holiday treasure. Appropriate 

for children. This is an unsupervised 

library activity. Parent or guardian 

supervision is required for this activity 

running from December 11 to 23. 

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Sunrise Yoga Sunday, 6-7am at Sumner Beach. Take in the sunrise on 

Christmas Eve with a free yoga session on the beach. Finish off with an 

optional dip in the ocean at this community event. Posh Porridge will 

be there to fill attendees up with a warm bowl of porridge after practice, 

so bring cash or eftpos. Bring a blanket and pop a squat through 30 

minutes of yoga where you can move your body through sun salutations 

and variations. Bring a yoga mat, warm clothes and a towel and togs for 

the dip if you fancy it. Register on Facebook. 

and paste a collage of your choosing. 

Appropriate for children. This is an 

unsupervised library activity. Parent 

or guardian supervision is required 

for this activity running from December 

27 to January 13. 

Santa Photos on the Jetty 

Saturday, noon-4pm 

Governors Bay Jetty 

Grab a photo with Santa on the new 

jetty. Bring your toddlers, teens, 

grown up children, pets, friends, 

workmates or even vague associates 

for a group photo with the man 

himself. This is the first Christmas 

since the opening of the restored 

jetty. Help fund the restoration cost 

with $20 for a digital photo and 

$25 for a printed version. Santa will 

make an entrance at 11.45am. Photos 

start at noon and will finish at 4pm. 

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queue can be expected. 

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and jewellery to toys, make your way 

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VOLUNTEERS and city council 

staff are restoring a Sumner 

landmark, the historic lychgate 

on the site of the 

now-demolished All Saints 

Church in Wakefield Ave. 

The lychgate was built in 

1944 in memory of 28-year-old 

Flying Officer Lister Charles 

Mulholland, a former All 

Saints Church choirmaster 

and organist who was killed 

during World War Two when 

his Hudson bomber crashed 

into the sea near Espiritu Santo 

(Vanuatu) in 1942. The bodies of 

the crew were never recovered. 

The lychgate, rock wall and 

a memorial garden containing 

the ashes of 30 parishioners are 

all that remain of the church 

that once played a prominent 

role in the weddings, funerals 

and worship of many Sumner 

residents but was demolished 

in 2015 after suffering damage 

in the February 22, 2011 

earthquake. 

As well as the church, the 

wall and lychgate were marked 

for destruction in red zone 

clearance plans. They were 

saved after a campaign by local 

residents with the help of then 

Port Hills MP, Ruth Dyson. 

Since the earthquakes, the 

lychgate and memorial garden 

have been fenced off in the 

rockfall hazard zone under the 

Sumner cliffs. But time and neglect 

have taken their toll, with 

the lychgate in urgent need of 

restaining and broken slates on 

the roof requiring replacement. 

The memorial garden had also 

become overgrown. 

A working bee last week of 

Sumner and Redcliffs residents 

and city council staff, co-ordinated 

by council community 

partnerships ranger Sarah Mankelow, 

restained the lychgate 

and weeded the rock wall and 

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memorial garden. 

Next year, staff from the 

council’s heritage department 

will repair the lychgate roof and 

restore a commemorative plaque 

to Mulholland. 

“What we’ve done so far is 

wonderful. It has transformed 

the area and revived an important 

link with the past. It means 

a lot to us,” said Liz Conly, who 

helped organise the working bee 

and whose parents ashes are buried 

in the garden. 

Mankelow said a city council 

REFRESH: Volunteers with the 

restained and repainted lychgate. 

Above – Ruth Perkins, Patsy Hawke, 

Virginia Pretty and Liz Conly weed 

the memorial garden. 

Wednesday December 20 2023 Bay Harbour News 

proposal to enhance the area 

behind the lychgate with native 

plantings will go out for public 

feedback next year. 

It has also planned to allow 

better access to the lychgate and 

memorial garden. 

Relatives of those whose ashes 

are in the garden will be granted 

occasional access under council 

supervision to care for the site 

and remember their relatives, 

and it is hoped that the fence 

will eventually be moved behind 

the lychgate. 

NEWS 3 

In Brief 

Landmark restored to former glory MERRY CHRISTMAS 

Today’s Bay Harbour News is 

the last issue for 2023. The paper 

returns on January 11. We wish 

our readers and advertisers a 

Merry Christmas and a Happy 

New Year, and an enjoyable and 

safe holiday break. 

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BUILT IN NEW YEAR 

Construction of a new school 

bus shelter at the intersection of 

Summit and Okains Bays Rds 

will start between January 15 

and 23. Work is expected to take 

a week. 

ESTUARY PEST PLANTS 

The Ōpāwaho Heathcote 

River Network wants the 

city council to speed up draft 

plans to address pest plants in 

the estuary and lower part of 

the river. Network secretary 

Malcolm Long addressed the 

Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere- 

Heathcote Community Board on 

Thursday regarding the threat 

pest plants pose to biodiversity. 

The community board agreed 

to get advice from council staff 

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NEWS 5 

New management 

gets project under way 

• From page 1 

His mother, Faith Wright, said 

the family is pleased the orchard 

is underway. 

“I’m happy that they are doing 

the memorial orchard for two 

people who died on the day of 

the earthquakes.” 

Ian Foldesi, was walking the 

Stan Helms track when the 

earthquake triggered a rockslide 

that swept across the track and 

carried him 25 metres down a 

cliff face. His body was found by 

the eldest of his three daughters, 

Sarah. 

The original idea for the memorial 

orchard was inspired by 

the fruit trees, owned by Owen 

Wright, already on the site. 

The land has passed through 

various owners since it was red 

zoned after the earthquakes. 

ORCHARD: The Smith St Community Farm and Lyttelton 

volunteers are up for the challenge of planting on a slope. 

Now the land is owned by the 

city council and came under the 

management of Georgina Stanley, 

the Smith Street Community 

Farm manager, last month. 

Stanley and her team have 

stepped up to develop the 

orchard after five years of the 

site lacking management which 

halted progress. 

“We manage a 1ha urban 

farm in Linwood, so we’ve got a 

really good team who over the 

last three years have got a lot of 

experience.” 

She believes the steep angle of 

the site was a factor in why no 

one was willing to develop the 

orchard until now. 

Stanley said it feels good to 

fulfil the hopes of the families for 

a memorial orchard after many 

years. 

“Spaces created by the community 

have a special kind of 

whimsy. They’re not the usual 

big, monumental places. They 

have a warmth to them.” 

Using the memorial orchard to 

help increase local food security 

in case of a disaster is a focus for 

Stanley. 

“Lyttelton being isolated on the 

other side of the hill, they end up 

not having a lot of flat land, so 

fruit trees make a lot of sense.” 

Stanley plans to extend the 

orchard by about 20 fruit trees 

every year, but she is keeping in 

mind community requests to 

maintain enough green space at 

the site for recreation. 

‘I was stunned’ 

says girl’s mum 

• From page 1 

Her mother is relieved they set 

up a password system when her 

daughter started school. 

Alert to the possible danger, 

the girl knew to run when the 

stranger failed to say the password. 

“I was quite stunned. It’s not 

something you expect,” said the 

mother. 

Sergeant Sinead McCormack 

would not say if police had identified 

any suspects. Inquiries were 

ongoing, she said. 

“The girl did the right thing by 

questioning the male and removing 

herself from the situation,” 

said McCormack. 

The girl described the man as 

having olive skin, European, aged 

in his 30s or 40s, about 1.9m tall, 

slim, with dark hair and wearing 

a black jumper and dark blue 

jeans. He may have had a septum 

(nose) piercing. 

The girl said the man was 

standing in front of a white van, 

but she is unsure if this belonged 

to him. 

McCormack would not comment 

on questions from Bay 

Harbour News if police were 

aware of other incidents where 

children had been approached by 

strangers in the area. 

The mother strongly recommends 

parents have a stranger 

danger talk with their children 

and set up passwords so they can 

check if an adult picking them up 

is genuine. 

“It worked really well for us, 

and it’s definitely inspired a lot of 

other people in our community.” 

She said a password could be 

anything from a pet’s name to a 

favourite soft toy. 

The mother said Lyttelton Primary 

School had been supportive 

and proactive in making parents 

aware of the incident. 

• Anyone with information 

regarding this incident is 

asked to contact police on 

the 105 non-emergency 

line, quoting file number 

231213/4326 

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WHEN WHALES get beached, 

it is important to know how to 

help. 

Primary school children with 

a passion for conservation were 

taught how to care for beached 

whales on Friday in Akaroa. 

“We’ve got to take the responsibility 

to care for these marine 

mammals, that’s what’s at the 

heart of it,” said Project Jonah 

educator Kelly Meads. 

Project Jonah is a national conservation 

group with a focus on 

rescuing beached animals and 

teaching marine life education at 

schools. 

Using a life-sized inflatable 

whale model, Meads taught 

children in the Pōhatu Penguins 

conservation club and their 

parents how to prevent harming 

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“If people can learn young, 

and in an environment where 

there is a lot of enthusiasm and 

passion for these animals, that’s 

going to stick with them for their 

entire life,” Meads said. 

The conservation club children 

attend either Duvauchelle School 

or Akaroa Area School. 

The educator said the first 

thing she taught is to call 0800 4 

9453 for Project Jonah’s rescue 

team or DOC in the event of a 

whale stranding. 

mindful of keeping themselves 

safe when caring for a beached 

whale, said Meads. 

“The whale tail is one of the 

strongest muscles in the animal 

kingdom. There is not much 

stronger than it, so it can cause 

quite a bit of harm to a human 

who is accidentally standing 

close by.” 

WATCH THIS SPACE 

It is important for people to be 

SAFEGUARDING: The Pōhatu Penguins learned how to care 

for beached whales using a blow-up model. 

The pupils learned not to pull 

on the tail or the dorsal fin, or 

try to move a whale. 

Using the whale model, they 

simulated pouring water over the 

fin while avoiding the blow hole. 

The pupils then lay a sheet over 

the model’s fin. 

“Whales are used to having 

water to protect (their) skin from 

the sun,” said Meads. 

“So getting a sheet up, moving 

out the air bubbles so the skin 

doesn’t heat up and the whale get 

burned.” 

Meads said remaining calm 

and quiet around a beached 

whale is also important to avoid 

distressing the animal further. 

A common question the 

educator is asked at strandings 

is why Project Jonah does not 

immediately drag whales back 

to sea. 

“We want to try to do 

everything we can to avoid 

injury. They basically can also 

get really, really dizzy when they 

get stuck on land,” she said. 

• Schools can organise 

a Project Jonah talk with 

Kelly Meads at 

Kelly.Meads@projectjonah. 

org.nz 

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Youngsters earn special recognition 

Ferrymead Rotary’s 

Barbara Crooks 

reports on the group’s 

community service 

awards for primary 

school pupils 

The community service of 13 

primary school pupils has been 

recognised with a special award 

from Ferrymead Rotary. 

The awards, based on the 

recommendations of teachers, 

are made to students who have 

demonstrated key leadership 

aspects. The criteria are based 

on students’ ability to be good 

listeners, to show initiative, to 

follow through on their actions, 

and to demonstrate the ability to 

work with a variety of people to 

get the job done. 

Those honoured this year 

were: Ava Clunie and Payton 

McLay (Bromley); Lauren 

McCauley (Heathcote Valley); 

Lilly-Marie Chapman and 

Michael Shevchuk (Mt Pleasant); 

Caleb Jansen and Hannah Lumb 

(Redcliffs); David Draganescu 

and Frida Perkins (Our Lady 

Star of the Sea); Issy Strachan 

and Ellie Young (Sumner); 

Lincoln Palmer and Charmare 

Steyn (Te Waka Unua). 

Reports from the schools 

HONOURED: Hannah Lumb and Caleb Jansen (Redcliffs), and Ava Clunie and Payton 

McLay (Bromley) were among the pupils recognised by Ferrymead Rotary for their 

contribution to school life. 

revealed a variety of qualities 

and activities across the awardwinners. 

These included: 

• Kindness to and support for 

other pupils 

• Leadership roles 

• Contributions to school 

sports teams and other school 

activities 

• Work in school libraries 

• Community involvement 

(some recipients have been 

working with elderly residents, 

or have been involved in 

community or church activities) 

• Positive role modelling for 

fellow students 

• Demonstrating the ability to 

work with adults, teachers and 

other students in various roles. 

Ferrymead Rotarian Pat 

Edward, who has overseen the 

project in recent years, says 

the aim is to promote a “good 

citizen” ethic within the school 

and the wider community. She 

emphasises that the criteria 

for the awards do not include 

academic or sporting skills. 

Rather, they concentrate on 

students’ contribution and 

service to the school and the 

community, and relationships 

with fellow pupils. 

Nominations are made by 

the teachers, and each recipient 

receives a gift voucher and a 

certificate. 

These awards are Ferrymead 

Rotary’s longest-running 

project. The first awards were 

given in 1992, the year the club 

was founded, and they have 

continued uninterrupted every 

year since. 

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successful year in Lyttelton. 

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willing to share their expertise 

with the local community,” said 

TechMate community coordinator 

Vanessa Simpson. 

The charity has helped 

more than 1300 people across 

Christchurch this year and 

has given away 200 laptops to 

people in need. 

The charity is mostly run by 

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knowledge and a few 

hours a week to people in need. 

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of Banks Peninsula need Tech- 

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TREASURES FROM THE PAST 

Oscar Rixon: Tales of a sailing life 

• By Steve McKelvey 

OSCAR RIXON could 

accurately recount the mast 

names, sails and rigging details 

of a four-masted barque in 1987 

at age 97. He clearly remembered 

Lyttelton in 1914 on his first visit 

as an ordinary seaman on the 

steam ship Riverina – including 

the British Hotel always full, the 

wharves busy and mud being 

pumped into the reclaimed area 

where the oil tanks now stand. 

Oscar always said he first 

went to sea because he did not 

want to go to Sunday school. 

He had a fiery relationship with 

his father, Andrew, who had 

also run away to sea as a boy. 

Andrew was shipwrecked in 

1882 off Green Cape Coast, New 

South Wales, on the Romeo, 

with a cargo of pianos, cement 

and beer. Coming from Finland 

he knew nothing of Australian 

wildlife; climbing ashore he met 

a large kangaroo in the bush. 

Oscar would tell the story of the 

Finn and the roo staring at each 

other for a few seconds before 

both turning and sprinting in 

opposite directions. 

Born in 1890, Oscar spent his 

childhood in Newcastle – his 

birthplace is still there, in a 

row of townhouses built for the 

harbour pilots and watermen. 

As a cabin boy he worked 

on the Melbourne Steamship 

Company vessel Sydney on the 

West Australian run. 

In early 1909, he joined the 

barque Glenbank, beginning 

many thousands of miles under 

sail. Alongside five other ships, 

the Glenbank’s captain and crew 

raced to be the first to reach 

Taltal in Chile. With so much 

sail on, the Glenbank won the 

race, with Oscar saying he felt 

“more like a fish, under water all 

the time”. 

In late 1910 Oscar had 

arranged to join the Ellisland 

from his home port of Newcastle 

– minutes before signing papers 

he was intercepted by a runner 

offering him more money on 

the County of Anglesea, “a fine 

little barque, she did sail like a 

witch”. Had he kept his original 

Oscar and Sarah Rixon, 1921, Steve McKelvey collection. Right – Oscar Rixon in the garden 

at 6 Randolph Tce, Lyttelton, 1970s, Steve McKelvey collection. 

plans he would have been among 

all hands lost with the Ellisland, 

which was reported missing in 

January 1911 and whose fate was 

never known. 

Competition was intense in 

Newcastle for crew, hence the 

use of runners. A Danish cook 

was drugged while drinking at 

a local hotel and woke aboard 

the County of Anglesea as an 

ordinary seaman. The ship’s 

intended route was to go through 

Cook Strait before turning 

towards South America, however 

a severe storm kept them 

between Wellington and Cape 

Campbell for three days. 

Oscar recalled the sails 

ripped to pieces, decks awash 

and sparks flying as the broken 

steel rigging chafed together. A 

series of huge waves broke over 

the ship and the last words the 

Danish cook yelled were “hang 

on, young fellow!” Oscar was 

washed into the rigging, badly 

injuring his leg and unable to go 

aloft for three weeks. Tragically 

the Dane was never seen again. 

Oscar completed a number of 

other trips under sail on vessels 

such as the British Yeoman and 

the Antiope, carrying timber 

between North America and 

Australia. He joined the Union 

Steam Ship Company in 1919 as 

fourth officer on the Niagara and 

continued on the Flora, Talune, 

Wanaka, Rakanoa, Waipori and 

Sussex. 

In the 1920s while on the 

Tofua, he and the man who 

would later be his Lyttelton 

neighbour, Harbour Master Roy 

Champion, were second and 

third officers. 

In December 1919, while 

entering a sly grog shop in 

Sydney, he recalled how he felt 

God speak to him about the 

way his life was heading. He 

changed dramatically – gave up 

drinking, smoking and gambling 

from that day on and freely 

shared his faith, often speaking 

at church meetings. 

It was not until WW2 that 

Oscar made Lyttelton his home. 

He had married Norwegianborn 

Sarah (née Pedersen) in 

1921 in Wellington. 

On arrival in Townsville, 

Australia, in 1925 on the Sussex 

he was informed she may not 

survive a hospital operation. 

He promptly telegraphed 

his resignation and returned 

immediately to New Zealand. 

Sarah recovered 

and after Oscar spent some 

time stevedoring, the couple 

took up farming in New 

Plymouth. 

In 1941 after Germany 

invaded Norway, Sarah took 

over their Taranaki dairy farm 

and Oscar, at age 51, enlisted in 

the Royal New Zealand Navy. 

He was posted to Lyttelton as 

examination officer with the 

rank of temporary lieutenant. 

He spent most of the war on 

the launches Wairangi and 

Friendship at the harbour heads, 

alternating 24 hours on and off. 

Eventually Oscar and Sarah 

sold their farm and bought a 

house overlooking Whakaraupō 

Lyttelton Harbour at 6 Randolph 

Tce. 

Lyttelton Press reporter John 

Leslie described Oscar Rixon 

as a man convinced he had 

been protected more times 

than he could remember by his 

unswerving faith. “Surely one of 

the most interesting characters 

one could ever meet, after 

meeting hundreds at Lyttelton 

in one’s time from all over the 

globe.” 

Oscar retired in 1955 as 

assistant wharf superintendent 

for the Union Steamship 

Company. Sarah was a soughtafter 

interpreter for Norwegian 

and Danish visitors. 

Sarah passed away in 1983 

and Oscar in 1998. Their home 

on Randolph Tce stands largely 

unaltered, the same wood 

panelling inside and a few of 

their many roses flourishing. 

The Wairangi, possibly taken after her maiden voyage in 

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9 10 

11 

12 

13 14 

15 16 17 

18 19 20 

21 22 23 

24 

22/12 

Across 

1. Closed envelope? Then WALK perhaps (6) 

8. Craft one may need to engage in 

commerce (5) 

9. Red sticks of it, the crowd murmur (7) 

11. Multiplied threefold about a thousand, 

and shook (8) 

12. The Right Reverend, out in a Cornish 

cathedral (5) 

15. In the old days you had a grand, in short 

(4) 

16. Hit the ball high into the vault of heaven 

(3) 

17. Madame Callas didn’t start to sing it (4) 

19. How to proceed on 21 Down for a month 

(5) 

21. Right out of lentigo the South is helpless 

(8) 

24. Shaped like a cigar fish (7) 

25. The pick of old sailors under punishment 

(5) 

26. Curses, but promises to be true (6) 

Down 

2. It may put one out of there (5) 

3. Decorative tree to set fire to in alum 

compound (8) 

4. Swiftly go to the river (4) 

5. What is left by amputation to floor one (5) 

6. Become in love with a season in America 

(4) 

7. Sheeplike, go with it (4) 

10. Early meal that will disintegrate quickly (9) 

12. Drinks of spirit for the littl’uns (4) 

13. The gall, celebrating it on a May day! 

(3-5) 

14. Symptom of disease of the foolhardy (4) 

18. Old love still burning hot? (5) 

20. Drink for which endless credit is needed 

(5) 

21. It is a measure of the infantry (4) 

22. What you can’t keep and also consume, 

they say (4) 

23. Propitiatory gifts that one soaks up (4) 

SUDOKU 

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 

box contains the digits 1 to 9. 

25 

26 

QUICK CROSSWORD 

1 2 3 4 5 6 

7 

8 9 

10 11 

12 13 14 15 

16 

17 18 19 20 

21 22 

23 24 

Across 

1. Picture (5) 

4. Boil gently (6) 

8. Sham or pretence (7) 

9. Farewell (Fr) (5) 

10. In the middle of (5) 

11. Unruly (7) 

12. Every time (6) 

14. Restaurant server (6) 

17. Clear of blame (7) 

19. Postpone (5) 

21. Style of beer (5) 

22. Supermarket cart (7) 

23. Move hips in a circle 

(6) 

24. Manner (5) 

Down 

1. Unequalled (12) 

2. Trophy (5) 

3. Precisely (7) 

4. Stinking (6) 

5. Cat cry (5) 

6. Apparent (7) 

7. Children’s verse (7,5) 

13. Smart alec (inf) (4,3) 

15. Gruelling (7) 

16. Kindly (6) 

18. Young insect (5) 

20. Foolishness (5) 

CODECRACKER 

QUICK CROSSWORD 

Across: 1. Image, 4. Simmer, 8. Charade, 9. Adieu, 10. Midst, 11. 

Lawless, 12. Always, 14. Waiter, 17. Absolve, 19. Defer, 21. Lager, 22. 

Trolley, 23. Gyrate, 24. Style. 

Down: 1. Incomparable, 2. Award, 3. Exactly, 4. Smelly, 5. Miaow, 6. 

Evident, 7. Nursery rhyme, 13. Wise guy, 15. Arduous, 16. Gentle, 18. 

Larva, 20. Folly. 

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 

Across: 1. Sealed 8. Trade 9. Rhubarb 11. Trembled 12. Truro 15. Thou 

16. Sky 17. Aria 19. March 21. Feckless 24. Torpedo 25. Oakum 26. 

Swears. 

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Breakfast 12. Tots 13. Oak-apple 14. Rash 18. Flame 20. Cider 21. Foot 

22. Cake 23. Sops. 

TARGET 

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egoistic egotist EGOTISTIC gets 

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sett site stet stogie stoic test 

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MEDIUM HARD 

EASY 

TARGET 

T C O 

G T I 

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