Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 6. April 2 1979

Cryptic Crossword

Cryptic Crossword

Empty crossword

Across

1.	Avoid responsibility for too late cry at drinking horn? (4,3,4)
9.	You may stay at such a place — hot at one end and the middle of hell at the other! (5)
10.	Cheap purchase means a profit on the booze? (7)
11.	Guarantees rat ran south-westward briefly in a muddle (8)
12.	Sounds like go away but you'll probably have have it on (4)
14.	I've heard of odder ways of storing animal food (6)
15.	His rpm confused a small 10 ft crustacion (6)
18.	Body of fighters concealed by insular myopia (4)
20.	Ultimate cut up (8)
22.	Reduce wild arty cadet (7)
23.	Dr, I've a problem containing energy (5)
24.	Weakness exposed in C Thorn's groin — premature ejacualtion perhaps? (11)

Down

2.	Changed Walt loses head before 500 (7)
3.	Reclaims from endless application of ointment and grows old on the bottom (8)
4.	Nuns have them, and they're often filthy (6)
5.	Robe in disarray reveals hole (4)
6.	It's missing in chaotic re-organisation [unclear: for] fairy-tale pumpkin transformation (5)
7.	Vote counting method as prelude to [unclear: cheiro] mancy? (4,2,5)
8.	I enter Peter as translator (11)
13.	Sounds like shake-down over short local newspaper for Arab state (8)
16.	"Looks like rain, Ian", says Persian person (7)
17.	Corrosion in charge of the country (6)
19.	"There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight — Ten to make and the.....to win" (Sir Henry John Newbolt) (5)
21.	Topless despair for two (4)

Last Week's Solution

Across: 1. Kitty 4. Marries 8. Lettuce 9. Aspic 10. Uneasily 11. Lion 13. Novel 15. Optic 17. Alms 18. Cup of tea 21. [unclear: Alike] 22. Cardiac 23. Element 24. Wisps

Down: 1. Kelbum Parade 2. Title 3. [unclear: Your] self 4. Meekly 5. Read 6. Imprint 7. [unclear: Second] chances 12. Tomorrow 14. Vampire 16 [unclear: Duk] 19. Trims 20. Mere