WIN!
A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7. Initially Old boys validate promissory notes – it’s clear (7)
9. A grain and oak seed (5)
10. Posts and ends on pole (5)
11. Allow to give title to ten, not at first (7)
12. See, we hear, the ocean (3)
13. Mall’s new cook – an insignificant thing (5,3)
16. Ills covered by animal skin on slope (8)
17. Whip feline (3)
19. I’m turning to right and a woman (7)
21. So ran back to location device (5)
22. Strike small, parasite (5)
23. Red car allowed from south (7)
DOWN
1. Owns sheriff’s men on steam ship (7)
2. Nags vile, strange and sinister controller (8)
3. Common sense of nouns? No point! (4)
4. Its lapel formed lozenge (8)
5. Measure of electricity heard in vault (4)
6. Go in with ten turning on queen (5)
8. Sienna hangs about causing mischief (11)
13. Licensed incorrectly, then gagged (8)
14. Rely on coin not so long ago (8)
15. Tie up rate and repeat (7)
18. US religious sect famished, but not fed (5)
20. I to run about old building (4)
21. Break and flip pans (4)
SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3 x 3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.
THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
$1000 PRIZE
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ACROSS
1. Steer clear of
4. 1970s TV series, … Five-O
8. Full of oneself (slang)
12. Strange and unnerving
16. Knotty lump on tree trunk
18. Immediate
19. Atom or neutron bomb, eg (7,6)
21. Angrily and resentfully, complained …
23. Innocent and gullible
24. Anxious, pressured
26. Nitrogen
