PUZZLES
Cryptic ACROSS 8 9
Cold bird cried for fledglings (8) Love for regressive South American musicals (6) 10 Russian writer of War and Piece (4) 11/28 A good bit of sodomy is standard for rapists (5,5) 12 Touched cloth (4) 13 Last stop on new tramline (8) 16 Set donkey with gin drunk (6) 18 Smartypants starts chundering after beer (4) 20 Crazy Spanish learner in the area (5) 21 Chooses bad spot (4) 22 Important month (6) 23 Assembly duly ends at once (8) 26 Stimulate while apparently moist (4) 28 See 11 30 Voice regret, be a gem (4) 31 Some trickery reveals a French scheme (6) 32 Second wrongdoing follows immoral act, gluttony in particular (8)
ACROSS
8 9 10 11 12 13 16 18 20 21 22 23 26 28 30 31 32
American state (8) Subatomic particle (6) All you need, according to The Beatles (4) Optimal (5) Ireland (4) Undies (8) The Milky Way or Andromeda, for example (6) A many-splendored thing, according to The Four Aces (4) First play in tennis (5) A crazy little thing, according to Queen (4) The world is your ... (6) Where to keep a pet parakeet (8) Aussie gem (4) Part of a saint (5) A battlefield, according to Pat Benatar (4) Uni portal website (6) Pompeii’s bane (8)
Target
S E W D A D Y E N
DOWN
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7 14 15 17 19 20 24 25 27 29 30
Caterpillar’s case (6) It’s in the air, according to John Paul Young (4) Dogtooth (6) It’s all around, according to The Troggs (4) The final chapter (8) It lifts us up where we belong, according to Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker (4) The Sun King (5,3) Box for treasure (5) Bush (5) Mauve (5) Zeus or Cathy Freeman, for example (8) Sweet treat: Kinder ... (8) Little lunch (6) Surrender (4,2) It will keep us together, according to Captain & Tennille (4) It hurts, according to Nazareth (4) Meat Loaf would do anything for this (but he won’t do that) (4)
10 words: That new cereal bar 20 words: Hermann’s 60 words: Manning Bar
DOWN
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 14 15 17 19 20 24 25 27 29 30
Expression unravels when spoken (6) Dracula versus boy (4) Thracian leader ran around Simpson and an old Turk (6) Pedantic chronicle leaves out note (4) Anthony White at Spooner’s do (8) Person saw first Will Ferrell movie (4) A type of robbery or rescue? (8) Parrot loses half of its whisky in casino centre (5) Gated sections of canals or lakes, say (5) Twenty seconds! Wow! Top event! (5) Slaughter, decapitation, ridicule (8) Insubstantial smutty reading (8) Bold call after father (6) After Science Class 1, Pacino is lippy (6) Sour pastry (4) Gee! Oh sh--! (4) Rake arouses confused abandoned ass (4)
Quick
Word Maze
Trace a path of fruits from APPLE to GRAPE. The path may turn corners at 90° (and does).
Solutions for Welcome Week edition Cryptic
Quick
Sudoku
Puzzles by Tournesol. Solutions next week. Crossword Society meets in the ISL at 1pm on Mondays and 3pm on Thursdays. Target: Liquidate
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