Bay Harbour: March 13, 2024

Wednesday March 13 2024 Bay Harbour News
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. The way poet Paul could supply inhabitants
(8)
7. Deck it in gold and cut it off (5)
8. Is able to be sullen with frankness (7)
9. It’s late to be finished, owing to the rest (7)
10. What pupil sits with previous partner
before noon (4)
12. Shiver three times as much around
beginning of May (7)
14. Scurried about, bosom-first (7)
17. Granny may be found in the wood (4)
18. When wine was made, for instance, in vat
like this (7)
21. Covetousness makes one carve a version
of it (7)
22. Nine one finishes off in a material way (5)
23. Enquire about rites performed in star
pattern (8)
Down
1. Appropriate cavity (6)
2. Hanging ornaments finish in underwear (8)
3. Give an eye to one’s appearance (4)
4. It’s the gullet that holds the alternative
up (6)
5. The leading lady in the plot was wounded
(4)
6. The scene of activity was The Globe (6)
7. Corkscrews for numbers one and two
batsmen (7)
11. For a crook, to be unwell is in vain (7)
13. A drinking-song which, in bird, is
misplaced (8)
14. It’s like cattle to be around when vino is
distributed (6)
15. Has visions of how to read manuscript (6)
16. Will move like lightning, not being suited
to it (6)
19. In Lebanon, evidently, there aren’t any (4)
20. Will grow white at the stake (4)
PUZZLES 19
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. Decapitate (6)
4. Place of worship (6)
9. Jeans fabric (5)
10. Very busy (2,3,2)
11. Hyped up (7)
13. School principal (4)
14. Prone to bad
language (4-7)
17. Stink (4)
18. Grapple (7)
21. Judge’s office (7)
22. Titan (5)
24. Lacehole (6)
25. Span (6)
Down
1. Auction participant (6)
2. Laying fowl (3)
3. Confess (5)
5. Small axe (7)
6. Widespread (9)
7. See (4)
8. Exactly as said (4,3,4)
12. Easter confectionery
(9)
15. Able to be read (7)
16. Fume (6)
19. Enthusiastic (5)
20. Dull pain (4)
23. Tot up (3)
CODECRACKER
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Behead, 4. Chapel, 9. Denim, 10. On the go, 11. Excited, 13.
Head, 14. Foul-mouthed, 17. Pong, 18. Wrestle, 21. Chamber, 22. Giant,
24. Eyelet, 25. Bridge.
Down: 1. Bidder, 2. Hen, 3. Admit, 5. Hatchet, 6. Prevalent, 7. Look, 8.
Word for word, 12. Chocolate, 15. Legible, 16. Seethe, 19. Eager, 20.
Ache, 23. Add.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Populate 7. Orlop 8. Candour 9. Overdue 10. Exam 12.
Tremble 14. Bustled 17. Knot 18. Vintage 21. Avarice 22. Ninon 23.
Asterisk.
Down: 1. Pocket 2. Pendants 3. Look 4. Throat 5. Bled 6. Sphere 7.
Openers 11. Villain 13. Brindisi 14. Bovine 15. Dreams 16. Streak 19.
None 20. Pale.
TARGET
dhole dish dishy dosh held hide
hideous HIDEOUSLY hides hied
hies hoed hoes hold holds hole
holed holes holey holy hose
hosed house housed hyoid lush
oldish shed shied shield shod
shoe should shul
MEDIUM HARD
EASY
TARGET
D U E
Y H S
O L I
Good 17
Very Good 23
Excellent 30+
ALL PUZZLES © THE PUZZLE COMPANY
How many words of four letters or more can you
make? There is at least one nine-letter word.
Each letter may be used only once and all
words must contain the centre letter.
No words starting with a capital, no plurals
ending in s unless the word is also a verb, e.g.
he fires the gun.
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