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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 11. May 28 1979

Cryptic Crossword

Cryptic Crossword

Empty crossword

Across

1. Cheater sends two kisses? (6,7)
7. I.S.I.C. farce? Give up (9)
9. Stop limping (4)
10. Diminutive Henry and duck give off glorius aura (4)
11. This kind of uncouth behaviour may result in scars (5)
14. Flowery assemblage (5)
15. Maximum or minimum (5)
16. That is a rodent in the middle, very angry (5)
17. Give up or give in (5)
18. Anger returns in Scottish eye giving spooky effect (5)
19. Energy powder mix for dazzling effect (5)
22. Footwear transformed into garden implements (4)
24. Sounds like withered visionary (4)
25. Got back or got well (9)
26. Not a stale fish, in fact very up to date (6,7]

Down

1. A Dickens of a school! (9,4)
2. Wise bird and feline friend put out in a green shade of one (4)
3. Hesitate, or, either way, a mistake (5)
4. First confusion may be fissures (5)
5. Said so! (4)
6. Grass stains? Or just bad luck! (3,2,3)
7. Pacific Islander erects structure [unclear: coofll] scandal-monger (9)
8. Waxed as sign of ownership? (9)
11. Concealed oneself in the middle of [unclear: chu] of England as rebuke (5)
12. Use sounds like cover up (5)
13. Shelter in street from rain and hail [unclear: afl]
20. Blow for glory? (5)
21. A near construction. Athletic Park, for example (5)
23. 'My life is fallen into the—, the [unclear: ye] low leaf (Shakespeare) (4)
24. Old man's name said in old-fashioned [unclear: was] by the sound (4)

Last Week's Solution

Across: 1. Friend in need, 9. Climb, 10. [unclear: Ev] sion, 11. Treasure, 12. Next, 14. Better, 15. [unclear: Grped], 18. Ripe, 20. Portions, 23. Acrobat, 24 [unclear: u] 25. Keep the peace.

Down: 2. Raiment, 3. Embossed, 4. [unclear: Drcail] 5. Neat, 6. Elide, 7. Denoted, 8. Scot, 13. [unclear: pro trude], 14. Barrack, 16. Prosaic, 17. Bottle, 19, Purse, 21. Sash. 22. Abet.