Stuff Digital Edition

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Plot to bear out that one can take it with one (8)

4. Some way off, an armed service can return to it (4)

8. Get shot of a doctor who holds one back (3)

9. A musician quietly engaged in seaside entertainment place (5)

10. Make fun of one shaft in a feather (3)

11. Sell, now that it’s been made larger than usual (7)

12. Fold sewn in a pelt when it’s made up (5)

13. They burn one in conspiracy who has slight disagreement (5,6)

17. Footways in the past could include the beginning of history (5)

18. Observer shows what credit may be arranged around the East

(7)

20. Go quickly if there’s a general call on the bank (3)

21. Fetters one presses flat (5)

22. Put clothes on a gentleman in Spain (3)

23. Look for a way to understand work finally (4)

24. Sin of the grown-up starts early, renouncing youth (8)

DOWN

1. Area of church concern makes capital by end of a month (6)

2. Send signal if one is seen in the wrong road (5)

3. Bloom one will endlessly pull up when at home (5)

5. Men fret about causing such agitation (7)

6. Something one gets back might be rate of exchange (6)

7. Multiplies, using paper got as necessary for it (10)

9. Phosphor will spoil different item of bedlinen (6-4)

14. Deeply emotional way one may have got away from the Nineties (7)

15. Extra wheels are available in spins, in having left (6)

16. Spirit will mark one as a boy finally (6)

18. Courted one with energy when among the trees (5)

19. It won’t answer directly where privet is concerned (5)

Puzzles

en-nz

2021-10-28T07:00:00.0000000Z

2021-10-28T07:00:00.0000000Z

https://fairfaxmedia.pressreader.com/article/282175064328495

Stuff Limited