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NUMBER 44 – MAY 2024
QUESTIONS
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1 Um - a dour elf found in Malta ( 2-6 )
6 Sounds ( a bit ) like Hebridean wreck that ’ s home to Barcelonans , for example ( 6 )
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NUMBER 43 - APRIL 2024 ANSWERS
8 Novice divers should go to these gradually ( 6 )
9 ( See 13 across )
10 Spent ammo or spent invertebrate that divers often witness ( 5 )
11 Worsley , perhaps , drowned in Pembrokeshire waters ( 4 )
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12 ( See 4 down )
13 ( With 9 across .) Add in a port to make bottle connection ( 3,6 )
14 Essential part of kit cobbled from shoe ( 4 )
15 This first man ’ s ale in which we dive ( 5 )
17 Some thyroidal tonsils are partial to his legislation ( 7 )
19 Channel Island computing creates reclusive crustacean ( 6 )
20 Royal Horticultural Society embraces poem to reveal Mediterranean island ( 6 )
21 Jools was a good example but divers certainly don ’ t want them ! ( 8 )
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2 One edge of a sail is a sucker ! ( 5 )
3 Ah I roll to make hospital ship on the east coast ( 7 )
4 ( With 12 across .) Seemingly , not a very lively place for diving ( 4,3 )
5 Leah , Jamie , Harry and Ben are typical examples of this important naval position ( 7 )
7 Gas raises for dredging ( 8 )
9 No crash when distributed on boats ( 7 )
10 Reach doctors for developing valve ( 8 )
12 Noel is a confusion for pinniped ( 7 )
13 4 ’ s vision for making part of ship ’ s rigging ( 7 )
16 I hear this is the most important wreck on the south coast ( 5 )
18 Monster from 157 to zero degrees returning here ( 4 )