TAKE A BREAK - Gulf Daily News

Gulf Daily News Thursday, 29th January 2015
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ACROSS
4 Method (6), 7 Linoleum (8), 8 Native American (6), 10 Adjust (5), 13 Quarry (4), 14 Board game
(4), 15 Lascivious look (4), 16 Everything (3), 17 Eager (4), 19 Skye, for example (4), 21 Food fish
(5,4), 23 Uncommon (4), 24 Assistant (4), 26 Orienteering item (3), 27 Frolic (4), 29 Cheese type
(4), 32 Fever (4), 33 Backbone (5), 34 Surgical knife (6), 35 Learned (8), 36 Vulnerable, sensitive
(6)
DOWN
1 Faithful (5), 2 Appeal humbly (5) , 3
Horizontal, level (4), 4 Portion, quota
(5), 5 Swing to and fro (4), 6 Breathe
out (6), 9 Interval of time (6), 11 Pair of
performers (3), 12 Card game (5), 13
Author’s pseudonym (3,4), 15 Star sign
(3), 16 Beer (3), 18 Come into view (6),
20 Shuteye (5), 21 Single circuit (3), 22
Drink gingerly (3), 23 Plunder (6), 25
Boy’s name (3), 28 External (5), 30 The
aforementioned (5), 31 Fixes (5), 32 Sourtasting substance (4), 33 Hosiery item (4)
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Biblical dog country? (5)
Rabid for something like
scrambled eggs? (5)
It’s said to be high in the
Hebrides (4)
Yearns to match the size (5)
The appeal of the quiet part of
the country (4)
Figure there’s a strangely tinny
effect about a note (6)
Diminish what’s left at Big
Bertha’s place (6)
Brazilian patriotic piece (3)
Support for a singer getting out
of line (5)
Address change for Mr. A. Love
(7)
A worn machine part (3)
YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Puffin’ 7, Ear-piece 8,
Like 10, Nailed 11, Incite 14, E’en 16,
No-NE-t 17, Stud 19, Level 21, Boner
22, G-aunt 23, Slow 26, Ti-MO-n 28,
Fee 29, Oceans 30, Win-ter 31, Exit
32, Gene-rate 33, Daring.
DOWN: 1, Pa-I-nts 2, Foiled 3, Nee-d
4, Spinner 5, Begin 6, Relet 8, Lieu 9,
Ken 12, Col 13, Tempo 15, Penny 18,
Toxic 19, Lou 20, Vet 21, Banners 22,
Go-a 23, Sen-I-or 24, Let-t 25, Wiring
26, Tough
27, Means 28, Fi-X 30, We-Ed.
YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1, Banana 7, Labourer 8,
Damp 10, Status 11, Remote 14,
Beg 16, Dares 17, Toss 19, Pilot 21,
Maxim 22, Tired 23, Nods 26, Galas
28, Wan 29, Erupts 30, Potato 31,
Unit 32, Shackles 33, Honour.
L M S
Y I O
B S M
DOWN: 1, Bedsit 2, Abates 3, Alps 4,
Boredom 5, Prior 6, Urges 8, Dabs
9, Mug 12, Mat 13, Tepid 15, Vixen
18, Oscar 19, Par 20, Lid 21, Mistake
22, Tap 23, Nation 24, On at 25,
Shower 26, Geese 27, Lunar 28, Won
30, Push.
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LEVEL: HIIII
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To what is Edwin Starr
referring in his 1970
hit with words ‘What is
it good for? Absolutely
nothing’?
Decompression
sickness, suffered by
divers who surface too
quickly is commonly
known as ‘ the…’ what?
Which Great British
Bake Off contestant was
named star baker of
episode three last year
for his filled Spanish
bread crown topped
with gold-foiled olives?
What nationality was
the painter Francisco
Goya?
What two-word name
was given to the
volunteers at 2012
London Olympics?
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2 Bends
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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 9; very good 14;
excellent 18 (or more).
Solution tomorrow.
YESTERDAY’S
SOLUTION
dune endue endure
ensure ensued ensure
ensured enure enured
nude nurd nurse nursed
rerun reuse reused rude
ruder rued rune ruse sued
suede suer sunder surd
sure SURRENDER under
used user
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16 Hear this and it’s only a rumour
(3)
18 The meteorologist’s line (6)
20 Start work on the remainder
(with a wrench?) (5)
21 Mark’s little girl (3)
22 The servants’ vehicle? (3)
23 It’s not often there are new
models (6)
25 He’s a bit of a hedonist (3)
28 It’s not certain the Inland
Revenue will go up to heaven!
(5)
30 A handy school game (5)
31 His essay is about a monarch (5)
32 One properly sunk (4)
33 To sing wildly must mean
something (4)
3 Luis Troyano
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ACROSS
Lying with a bend in the
backbone (6)
A traditionally incisive departure
out East (4-4)
New angles, one gathers (6)
Hardly a good present! (5)
Wild hare associated with the
ostrich (4)
A one-woman opera (4)
Untidy eating place? (4)
Where a pig may come to a
nasty end? (3)
Old-fashioned country? (4)
Go to and fro out West, say (4)
Ship that made a record number
of deliveries on the 4th of July
(9)
Moderate repetitiveness (2-2)
Having a high position, sounds
vain (4)
Determined to take part in the
match (3)
Kind of mash to ban outright?
(4)
A place to pick out? (4)
One interrupts a law-breaker to
complain (4)
Beryl, possibly, a saintly
individual? (5)
Low, venomous, calculating
creatures? (6)
Monarch may be mad on the
stage - what a tragedy! (4,4)
In bad odour? (6)
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