CROSSWORD
Exercise your brain cells LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS ACROSS: 4) Wise guy, 8) Adroit,
9) Message, 10) Employ, 11) Raring, 12) Full-face, 18) Jumped-up, 20) Angina, 21) Stolen, 22) Stutter, 23) Bow tie, 24) Charity. DOWN: 1) Take-off, 2) Grapple,
3) Rip-off, 5) Ice cream, 6) Ensure, 7) Urgent, 13) Adjacent, 14) Adulate, 15) Spanner, 16) Snatch, 17) Filter, 19) Patrol.
CLUES ACROSS
CLUES DOWN
7 Cleaner with nothing for dirt collection (6)
1 Small boat with engine power (6)
8 Change ice off the block into a place for a desk (6)
2 Specified amount of money, result of adding numbers (3)
9 By some convoluted method is a tan changed to a social creature (3)
3 Yellow sign for caution (5)
10 When you are well disposed for action, all systems are go (5)
4 One of a group that operates beyond the Law (7)
11 Good layer of endearing use to eat (3)
6 Demonstrate fear by forcing out a high-pitched note (6)
14 Rather brash and gaudy, not in the best of taste (5) 15 This chicken really has a sauce (7)
12 She should give an answer to the half-crazed tandem owner (5)
17 Flower of complex form, fruit of possible desire (7)
13 Pass over an old gallows tree (5)
19 Song of David? Possibly, who knows? (5)
16 Feline impressionist perhaps? (7)
22 First class fighter pilot (3)
18 One of an old broadcasting family of silent shooters? (6)
23 Rather delicate, elegant woman (5) 24 Stretch of a measured distance - for a race perhaps? (3) 27 Occupier of an Eastern teahouse (6) 28 Accompanied with, a design for singing (6)
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5 Go away, leave, depart (3)
20 Off-course sideways movement of a ship in the direction of the wind (6) 21 Where one might conceivably find form of 7A (5) 25 Humble creature of biblical fame (3) 26 Once said to be a fair one when crook was apprehended (3)