TAKE A BREAK - Gulf Daily News

Gulf Daily News Wednesday, 28th January 2015
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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)
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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.
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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.
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LEVEL: HHHII
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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
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2 Alfred Wainwright
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3 A plastic bottle
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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
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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)
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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)