Gulf Daily News Monday, 11th May 2015
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ACROSS
3 Roof edges (5), 8 Nectar (5), 10 Oak fruit (5), 11 Roll (3), 12 Thick (5), 13 Referee (7), 15
Cove (5), 18 Man’s name (3), 19 Drowsy (6), 21 Woman’s name (7), 22 Suffering (4), 23
Church recess (4), 24 Hark (7), 26 Slanting type (6), 29 Brown (3), 31 Italian port (5), 32
Replies (7), 34 Drink (5), 35 Still (3), 36 Book of maps (5), 37 Ague (5), 38 Fruit (5)
DOWN
1 Snake (5), 2 Deer meat (7), 4 Assert
(4), 5 Simply (6), 6 Location (5), 7 Crawl
(5), 9 Gist (3), 12 Fiendish (7), 14 Pitch
(3), 16 Jumps (5), 17 Sorts (5), 19 Break
(7), 20 Small twig (5), 21 Sofa (5), 23
Irritated (7), 24 Communicate (6), 25
Consume (3), 27 Trials (5), 28 Provincial
(5), 30 Complete (5), 32 Perform again
(4), 33 Revolution (3)
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ACROSS
They’re pretty shapeless, ducks
(5)
Beneath the elbow, maybe (5)
Uncle again gets the wrong sum
(5)
See nothing for a little time in
bed (3)
Start rowing in a rotten lake! (5)
Enough money to get one
carried away? (3,4)
Troubles that exist in the Civil
Service (5)
It’s mined in Korea (3)
Deprive of cover (6)
Went round to put a name on
the list (7)
Sound excessively thick-headed
(4)
Guy with a counterfeit note (4)
Favourite place to buy things
you’ll love (3,4)
Motorist insisting on a hard
bargain? (6)
What’s in a name? (3)
Somehow nears a more sensible
state (5)
Sort of case for a diplomat (7)
It’s foolish to be foxy about just
one pound (5)
Further, nearly a foot back (3)
With which one might be given
a pair of socks (5)
They labour, these writers about
love (5)
Leading by a small margin (5)
DOWN
Bad time touring the East
Central district (5)
2 Moving quickly a good distance
(7)
4 Special knowledge of solo
recording (4)
5 Held up the car reversing into a
garden plot (6)
6 A chair in the saloon (5)
7 Fathead accustomed to being
overloaded! (5)
9 It often leads to a smash (3)
12 A wave from a smasher! (7)
14 Pictures, etc., in popular
television (3)
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16 Raise the flag at the cricket
ground? (3,2)
17 Cut south at all times (5)
19 The thickness that makes you sit
in and refuse to go out (7)
20 Misguidedly dusts certain
projections (5)
21 You’ll find him in probing a book
of birds (5)
23 Gave a chap the wrong date (7)
24 Be lost, like a monarch in a
shipwreck (6)
25 Tricky thing to wear? (3)
27 Swift and quiet in attack (5)
28 Victor possibly eats with her (5)
30 Was brilliant enough to silence
anybody (5)
32 Some old boy’s mater? (4)
33 What to exclaim when you see
double? (3)
YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Waist 6, Terms 9,
Mounted 10, If not 11, Rig up 12,
Skirt 13, Mistake 15, Has 17, Itch 18,
Get out 19, F-L-air 20, G-Ravel 22,
Dell 24, Yap 25, Fed-eral 26, Stain
27, Radio 28, Ling-O 29, Tousl-Ed 30,
Seven 31, Deeds
DOWN: 2, Au fait 3, S-moot-h 4, Tot
5, Snake (River) 6, Terrier 7, Edit 8,
Mau Mau 12, Skill 13, Mingy 14,
Scrap 15, H-over 16, Still 18, Gi-VE-n
19, Festoon 21, Ravage 22, De-ri-de
23, Lagged 25, First 26, Sit-E 28, Led
YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Barge 6, Poise 9,
Oration 10, Snare 11, Nutty 12,
Pants 13, Exposed 15, See 17, Dean
18, Covert 19, Pagan 20, Carmen 22,
Muse 24, Toe 25, Steamer 26, Lithe
27, Stoic 28, Muted 29, Manager 30,
Aspen 31, Never
How many words of four
letters or more can you
make from the letters
show here? In making
a word, each letter may
be used once only, Each
must contain the centre
letter and there must be
at least one nine-letter
word. No plurals or verb
forms ending in “s” no
words with initial capitals
and no words with a
hyphen or apostrophe
permitted.
The first word of a phrase
is allowed (e.g. inkjet in
inkjet printer)
TODAY’S TARGET
Good 10; very good 15;
excellent 20 (or more).
Solution tomorrow.
YESTERDAY’S
SOLUTION
amino amnio amnion
anion
annoy
anoint
anomy anon anonym
ANONYMITY
anti
antimony
antinomy
antonym antonymy atony
into main many matin
mint minty moan myna
nation tinny tiny tony
S C G
T T I
I E O
DOWN: 2, Annexe 3, Gorgon 4,
Ere 5, Stead 6, Pontoon 7, Onus 8,
Setter 12, Pecan 13, Edict 14, Padre
15, Serum 16, Ether 18, Caste 19,
Pelican 21, Aortas 22, Mature 23,
Serene 25, Shoal 26, Lime 28, Men
1
The Watergate scandal
in the early Seventies
led to the resignation of
which US president?
2 In which US state is
the
world-renowned
Interlochen Center for
the Arts?
3
Chalybeate water are
rich in salts of which
metal?
4
Which
part
of
the
body is affected by the
destructive habit called
bruxism?
What style of ancient
writing
derives
its
name from the Latin for
‘wedge-shaped’?
4 Teeth
3 Iron
2 Michigan
1 Richard Nixon
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5 Cuneiform
LEVEL: HHHII