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Vagrant
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 Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:11 am Post subject: 1 |
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This is just another crossword puzzle.
Most of the clues are standard everyday variety cryptics. The other six are something else. You'll know which is which.
Across
1. What this is (3,2,3,5)
10. Doctor or, at times, insurance assessor (9)
11. More than one spoke and we heard them say “Doctor Strand and I …” (5)
12, 24. What Eton is (6,6)
13. Trash (in rank)! (7)
15. Part to play in return of the Lord (4)
16. Appear to just miss the bronze, say (4,5)
18. For redistributing carb, Rita and I like liposuction? (9)
20. Felt down every second jacket (4)
23. Censured about plot about England (7)
24. see 12
26. Paramedic trainer provides command (5)
27. Cryptic clue I’ll do on film (9)
28. What this is (3,6,4)
Down
2. Spooner’s speck-fish porridge (7)
3. Salt with oxygen strike (6)
4. Desmond wears it to the ballet (4)
5. They’re incomplete music performers (though many would disagree) (10)
6. Caudron, for example, is possible clue for I.R.A. (8)
7. What you might become if you spin, flip over and ride around (7)
8. What this is (7,6)
9. What this is (5,4,4)
14. Stacy cared about the chicken (7-3)
17. Burn bats? (4)
19. King and I in race to bull (7)
21. What oatmeal is (3,4)
22. Real but not quite true (6)
25. Spread whole or partly (4) |
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:06 pm Post subject: 2 |
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ACROSS
1. TOP OF THE CROSS? (pretty sure the first three words are correct)
12. TWENTY
20. ETON
24. ACROSS
DOWN
2. OATMEAL
4. TUTU
21. TWO DOWN |
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Elethiomel
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:14 pm Post subject: 3 |
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10. Doctor or, at times, insurance assessor (9) - ESTIMATOR
15. Part to play in return of the Lord (4) - ROLE
27. Cryptic clue I’ll do on film (9) - CELLULOID |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject: 4 |
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28A. The bottom line
25D. Oleo
14D. Scaredy-cat
16A. Come forth
12A. Twenty
24A. Across
11A. Radii
9D. Right hand side |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject: 5 |
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| 18A. Bariatric |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: 6 |
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3D. OSMITE
6D AIRCRAFT
13A TARNISH
19D RUBBISH
26A EDICT
22D ACTUAL |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject: 7 |
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5D They’re incomplete music performers (though many would disagree) (10) EURYTHMICS
17D Burn bats? (4) BACKSTAB
23A Censured about plot about England (7) REBUKED
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7. What you might become if you spin, flip over and ride around (7) SUDSIER?
8. What this is (7,6) _ E _ T _ R _ / B _ R _ E _
[edit]WESTERN BORDER[/e] |
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Quailman
His Postmajesty
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:38 pm Post subject: 8 |
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I just realized that 1A can't be TOP OF THE CROSS. It is TOP OF THE _ A _ _ _. The second-to-last letter crosses
7. What you might become if you spin, flip over and ride around (7) _ _ D _ I _ R
GIDDIER? TOP OF THE RANGE? |
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Vagrant
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject: 9 |
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| And you're done! Nice work. |
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