Gulf Daily News Wednesday, 28th January 2015 9 TAKE A BREAK ... 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 1 ACROSS 1 Fruit (6), 7 Navvy (8), 8 Slightly wet (4), 10 Rank (6), 11 Distant (6), 14 Beseech (3), 16 Challenges (5), 17 Chuck (4), 19 Flier (5) , 21 Axiom (5), 22 Weary (5), 23 Signals agreement (4) , 26 Festive occasions (5), 28 Pallid (3), 29 Bursts out (6), 30 Spud (6), 31 Single entity (4), 32 Fetters (8), 33 Personal integrity (6) DOWN 1 Single-room flat (6) , 2 Subsides (6), 3 Mountain range (4), 4 Tedium (7), 5 Previous (5), 6 Strong impulses (5) , 8 Fingerprints, slang (4), 9 Drinking vessel (3), 12 Floor covering (3), 13 Lukewarm (5), 15 Female fox (5), 18 Acting award (5), 19 Standard (3), 20 Cover (3), 21 Error (7), 22 Faucet (3), 23 Country (6), 24 Nagging (2,2), 25 Short fall of rain (6), 26 Aquatic birds (5), 27 Of the moon (5), 28 Was victorious (3), 30 Shove (4) 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 12 13 15 18 19 20 21 22 DOWN Colourful line in undergarments (6) Frustrated in fencing? (6) Requirement when born at a dead end (4) Top bowler? (7) Start being maladjusted (5) Unoriginal thing for a landlord to do? (5) In this, one gets a replacement (4) He’s short, you know (3) Senior officer in a lockup (3) Playing speed (5) A price to whistle at? (5) A poisonous sort of “ology” (5) Nominally a bit of a lout (3) Old soldier in grave trouble (3) Prohibition pennants? (7) One on leave somewhere in India (3) YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION ACROSS: 1, Try-St 6, Pat-Ch 9, Transi-t 10, Eve-R-y 11, C-over 12, C-ream 13, T-Anne-ry 15, D-I’m 17, Aled 18, Pol-it-e 19, Steer 20, Greece 22, Pipe 24, O-ar 25, Sco-O-ter 26, Froth 27, Strip 28, Pi-pp-a 29, Nemesis 30, Adder 31, Three. DOWN: 2, Re-veal 3, St-r-and 4, Try 5, En-try 6, Picador 7, A-tom 8, Credit 12, C-rate 13, Tan-go 14, Newer 15, Di-git 16, Meter 18, P-each 19, Scarpe-r 21, R-a-NT-ed 22, Polish 23, People 25, Steep 26, Fine 28, Pit. YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION ACROSS: 1, Atlas 6, Sears 9, Feather 10, Trite 11, Toast 12, Bolts 13, Journal 15, Bet 17, Errs 18, Berate 19, Boxer 20, Neaten 22, Boss 24, Sin 25, Trounce 26, Weird 27, Thief 28, Faint 29, Diction 30, Frost 31, React. E E S R U R N R D DOWN: 2, Terror 3, Afters 4, See 5, Stool 6, Settler 7, Eros 8, Russet 12, Baton 13, Jeans 14, Urban 15, Bacon 16, Tense 18, Beard 19, Benefit 21, Either 22, Butane 23, Scenic 25, Truth 26, Weds 28, For. 1 2 3 4 LEVEL: HHHII 5 The acronym yolo has been added to the Oxford online dictionary. For what does it stand? Which author created the Pictorial Guide To The Lakeland Fells, now a standard reference work for the Lake District? What anachronistic item was spotted in a promotional photo for the latest series of ITV’s Downton Abbey? In the US, Little League is the junior league of which two sports? In Back To The Future Part II, to what future year do Marty and Doc Brown travel? 1 You only live once 17 19 21 22 23 2 Alfred Wainwright 16 3 A plastic bottle 14 How many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters show here? In making a word, each letter may be used once only, Each must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word. No plurals or verb forms ending in “s” no words with initial capitals and no words with a hyphen or apostrophe permitted. The first word of a phrase is allowed (e.g. inkjet in inkjet printer) TODAY’S TARGET Good 16; very good 24; excellent 31 (or more). Solution tomorrow. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION afield afire airfield café calf calif CLARIFIED clef deaf decaf deific delf face faced facer facile fade fader fail failed fair farce fare fared fear feral field filar file filed filer fire fired flair flare flared flea fled flier frail fried leaf life lifer rife rifle rifled 4 Baseball and Softball 8 10 11 23 Being of higher rank, I interrupt the Spaniard (6) 24 Latvian permitted to open talks (4) 25 Communicating with conductors? (6) 26 Difficult? That’s your hard luck! (5) 27 Intends to have plenty of money (5) 28 If upset, a kiss will make things right (3) 30 We have a name for tobacco (4) 5 2015 1 7 ACROSS Flier almost out of breath? (6) Telephone component for a listener to music (8) The kind to be fond of (4) Caught in a stupid denial (6) Persuade to copy what’s in sight (6) Even obtainable from the enemy (3) Composition that’s not out of the way? (5) Multiplication stable (4) The hospital floor, perhaps (5) The filleter’s mistake? (5) Good lady relatively haggard (5) Too dense to keep up with the times (4) Athenian method of working in tin (5) Doctor’s charge for cut feet? (3) No case for very large quantities! (6) Get a half of bitter that’s only a quarter! (6) This lets you out (4) Produce green tea, perhaps (8) Challenging someone to be bold (6)
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