CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ANSWERS Week 961

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ACROSS: 7 Occur; 8 Explore; 9 Violent; 10 Creed; 12 Phlegmatic; 15 Escarpment; 18 Trail; 19 Lenient; 21 Excused; 22 Cleft.

DOWN: DOWN: 1 Convenient; 2 Actor; 3 Urge; 4 Mettle; 5 Specimen; 6 Modesty; 11 Decapitate; 13 Harmless; 14 Scratch; 16 Melody; 17 Jewel; 20 Nick.

CR CR YPTIC YPTIC

ACROSS ACROSS

1.Dope (4)

8.Achieve (10)

9.Refute (8) 10.Robe (4) 12.Jet (6) 14.Incorporate (6) 15.Dreary (6) 17.Lubricate (6)

18.Slender (4)

19.Burst (8)

21.Charlatan (10)

22.Whirlpool (4)

CAN YOU MASTER THE SUDOKU CHALLENGE?

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Solution on Page 23

2.Give up (10)

3.Pant (4)

4.Stop (6)

5.Hinder (6)

6.Suitable (8)

7.Avoid (4)

11.Far-reaching (10)

13.Impending (8)

16.Hewed (6)

17.Sociable (6)

18.Domesticated (4)

20.Receive (4)

ACROSS: ACROSS: 7 Abeam; 8 Sea-room; 9 Drought; 10 Dates; 12 Never again; 15 Variegated; 18 Realm; 19 Western; 21 Clearly; 22 Class.

DOWN: 1 Maiden over; 2 Aesop; 3 Smug; 4 Tsetse; 5 Mandrake; 6 Postbag; 11 Singleness; 13 Evermore; 14 Breaker; 16 Always; 17 Cedar; 20 Sack.

1.Prima donna is eager to come back (4)

8.Inane fellow on the motorway is a cricketer (5,3-2)

9.Make less of changing his mind about one (8)

10.Manage to put on a priest's cloak (4)

12.Put an end to the drink (6)

14.Room for a car (6)

15.Iron only ordered for a crime (6)

17.Hotel employee's drink (6)

18.Let it stand the test again (4)

19.Jane's disaster (8)

21.Fellow countryman has to camp out at the disturbance (10)

22.Consumes some cold-meat sandwiches (4)

DOWN

2.Being tactless, I enter oddly without a record (10)

3.Wine has some lasting effects (4)

4.His leg was broken on a toboggan (6)

5.Epidemiologist finally gets pushy about discovering a disease (6)

6.Round letter ... (8)

7.... formerly seen on a church (4)

11.Calvinist in favour of examination for the worker (10)

13.Stewpot's newly-discovered dances (3-5)

16.Shy cat is upset by boats (6)

17.Pale-faced friend took cover (6)

18.Blow with foot (4)

20.Friend reorganised the team (4)

LEADER TRIVIA QUIZ (Answers on page 23)

1. According to the US postal service and the Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee, what kind of person shall not be honoured on a US postal stamp?

2. Onychophagia is a common habit particularly for many near the end of a sporting event. What is it?

3. What was John Steinbeck's travelling companion Charley?

4. In film, the inventive Major Boothroyd is simply known under which other name?

5. For some beginners, Pratt, Shelby and Windsor can be confusing examples of what?

6. The following words in different languages all mean what? Gehve, Qahwa, Sourj, Koohii, Kape

7. What colour stick does a manicurist use?

8. Which actor has been nominated twice for an Academy Award for playing a US President?

9. Other than English, what are the four most spoken languages in Australia?

10. George Jung and David Tsung are both credited with the invention of which after dinner success?

11. Rex Harrison's son Noel, Edward Woodward, Alison Moyet, Sting, Terry Hall, Petula Clark, Jose Feliciano, Vanilla Fudge and the Muppets have all covered which Academy Award winning song?

12. Which infamous warrior's title loosely translated meant Ocean Ruler?

13. In the TV series Star Trek, how many crew members were aboard Capt Kirk's USS Enterprise? Plus or minus 20.

14. Named after shipwrecks and the bleached bones left on the shoreline by whalers in days gone by, the Skeleton Coast is still found today off which continent?

15. Which former ward attendant in a psychiatric hospital wrote 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'?

16. Ira Hayes is one of the five struggling men in which famous photograph?

17. The name of which playful mammal stems from the Greek word for womb?

18. The word 'dinosaur' stems from the two Greek words 'deinos' and 'sauros'. Sauros means reptile or lizard. What does deinos mean?

19. Which artist had a 'Blue Period' and a 'Rose Period'?

20. The shape of a 'Torus' is often compared with which popular North American calorie bomb?

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