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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 7. April 9 1979
Cryptic Crossword
Cryptic Crossword
Across
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| 1. | How MPs are chosen — irrational selection (9) |
| 6. | Lap in reverse for friend (3) |
| 8. | The first person objective becomes subject (5) |
| 9. | Cheekily hollowed, 500 limped awkwardly (7) |
| 10. | A rye awry for 12 months (4) |
| 11. | Loud and harsh result from big step into little New Testament (8) |
| 13. | Ten dry lefties? (6) |
| 14. | Bird evolves in porcine age? (6) |
| 17. | Levellings for late days (8) |
| 19. | Sing for drinks (4) |
| 22. | Wood-eating social insects may be found in the middle term, I tend to think (7) |
| 23. | Trevor almost comes back in public view (5) |
| 24. | Squeeze as well (3) |
| 25. | Having little lumps at loud end, perhaps (9) |
Down
| 1. | Don't even try to find a way in! (5) |
| 2. | Uplifted French pupil almost consumed (7) |
| 3. | President sounds like fool (4) |
| 4. | Peculiarity of overdraft over tidy but disorganised (6) |
| 5. | cf. so I'm in a confused state tending to sleep (8) |
| 6. | "And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A.........in the eternal mind no less" (Rupert Brooke) (5) |
| 7. | Overweight little sheep gives the quay (7) |
| 12. | Extra bit and idiot, perhaps (8) |
| 13. | Let rest for support (7) |
| 15. | I in the middle of ten men organised for outstanding impression (7) |
| 16. | An avaricious urge is settled (6) 10. Frightening sound for instance (5) |
| 20. | In the past to sit on the short editor gratified to the full (5) |
| 21. | Loop reflected in still water (4) |
Last Week's Solution
Across: 1. Pass the buck 9. Hotel 10. Bargain 11. Warrants 12. Shoe 14. Fodder 15. Shrimp 18. Army 20. Mutilate 22. Detract 23. Drive 24. Shortcomings
Down: 2. Altered 3. Salvages 4. Habits 5. Bore 6. Coach 7. Show of hands 8. Interpreter 13. Sheikdom 16. Iranian 17. Rustic 19. Match 21. Pair.
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