The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth - Sept/Oct 14 | Page 72

Try Our Answers on page 78 Cryptic Crossword ACROSS 1 Indonesian island has Buddhist writing to absorb scholar (7) 5 Having removed article from deceased, hastily withdrew (7) 9 Poor sad Wendy – filled with woe, ultimately, from the day she was born (9) 10 Irish sage written about in medieval lore (5) 11 Drunkenness – the vice of innkeepers’ patron (2,7,4) 13 In history the Unknown Soldier represents us all (8) 15 Exhausted last of finance held in banks (6) 17 Looks after son with display DOWN 2 Fashionable dressmaker’s style is German, intrinsically (7) 3 Some heat generated by those people across the river (5) of affection (6) 14 Too wise, we hear, to accept dubious 1 Thus opponents are scattered (4) 12 A fellow I have found striking (10) 19 A male predator guards quiet drug trades? Obviously not born this! (9) 16 Puts in office a powerful leader with aims (8) 4 Tree feller becomes a civic dignitary 18 Agent distorts the truth when giving (8) answers (7) 5 One’s a little bit put out by awkward 20 One’s captivated by fashionable Red situation (6) 6 Bullets coming from several directions anthem (7) position furthest away from sun (8) 22 Meets previous revolutionary characters in USSR legislature (7,6) 25 One legislative body rejected epic story (5) 21 Student chatted with US lyricist (6) 26 She looks after the kids! (5,4) 23 Woman shortly turned up unknown 27 He tries to speak in Erse lines of poem (5) perhaps (7) 8 Dickens’ celebrated daughter kept 24 Eat out with hangman, but skip the 28 Observe student inside church asafoetida (6,4) starter (4) makin