SCUBA March 2024 issue 143 | Page 74

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NUMBER 42 – MARCH 2024

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1 Slips or bunks ( 6 )
5 Type of Ursidae favoured by cold water divers ? ( 6 )
8 In a wooable situation this is an emergency ( 3 init .)
9 Great River made up of 7 ( 4 )
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10 She may not be real but many have exercised kissing her ! ( 4 )
11 Hold pin and shake it about to attract cetacean ( 7 )
17 Prickly thorn develops into Sea ( 5 )
19 The French yob falls foul of his Law ! ( 5 )
20 African Republic needs November to spread from Ireland to Scotland ( 5 )
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21 Technical divers love theirs but no doubt do non-divers as well ! ( 5 )
23 To a degree I and hooligan make up escape mechanism ( 7 )
28 On a scale of 8 this belongs to Dorothy in 1939 film ( 4 )
29 Initially England ’ s dirty dozen yield swirling situation ( 4 )
30 BSAC ’ s top brass ( but not the sort you find on wrecks !) ( 3 init .)
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32 Go east with Royal Navy to reach this position on ship ( 6 )
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2 Folks like Rogerson do this all the time ( 4 )
3 Listen , this may come out ( or in ) but always fastened ( 4 )
4 I hear tasty fish makes this type of music ( 4 )
5 To clean part of 17 across ( 4 )
6 Sound gateway hidden amongst Bob , Andy etc ( 4 )
7 Follows a shot ( 4 )
12 Somebody like Timothy would seem to have this liking for pressure ( 7 )
13 If you fathom this out about 100 times you will be there or thereabouts ( 5 )
14 Palindromic craft ( 5 )
15 Start of a fast train in the Red Sea ( and in Massachusetts ) ( 5 )
16 Detective Chief Inspector starts with an alias to get outcome of diving incident ( 5 )
17 Fishing gear in the Netherlands ( 3 )
18 ( With 31 .) Sounds like Black 60 ’ s singer is an absolute wreck down south ( 3 init , 6 )
22 A tender loving care mix-up highlights drysuit accessory ( 4 )
23 Divers ’ holy grail for the likes of Alexander or Martin perhaps ( 4 )
24 Hebridean Island formed purely of iodine , oxygen and sodium ( 4 )
25 Killer in two of the Balearic Islands ( 4 )
26 To dive you should have your bottle in this ( 4 )
27 Redo redo for European River ( 4 )