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About cryptic crosswords
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crosswords"
Here is today's crossword
http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/16/stories/2006011600060900.htm"
I have put my guesses to the right of the clue in white (after the "--"). If you don't want to read my guess and want to work it out by yourself, don't highlight that part!
Across
1 Toss and turn with the aged at the doorway (9)
5 Sorceress with a key inside (5) -- WITCH
8 A flier, fit, can be made less intense (8)
9 In traffic it has a stop and go effect (6) -- SIGNAL
11 Statesman— what a run he managed! (5)
12 Canine transport in America (9) -- GREYHOUND (?)
13 An area to ignore, possibly (6) -- REGION
14 Royal Indian party figuring in the papers (8)
16 Moving around small island, prepare for action (8)
18 Half of them, except Kelvin, get on board (6) -- EMBARK(?)
22 A tribal do produces flap on lorry (9)
23 Bird that managed to get into church (5)
24 Needlework in the theatre (6) -- SATIRE (?)
25 Badly spoiled, hard, but refined (8)
26 A girl's bit of banter (5) -- SILLY (?) :tongue2:
27 Swollen and destined to suffer, with a bit of dysentery (9)
Down
1 A coach to coach the queen (7)
2 Inconsiderate driver, a swine by the way (4,3)
3 Ellis Island monument, a gift from the French (6,2,7) -- STATUE OF LIBERTY
4 Treat boil e.g. and do a favour (6) -- OBLIGE
5 Scale that got Angie chewing him out (8,7) -- WEIGHING MACHINE
6 Shaving the head is not new, certainly (7) -- TONSURE
7 Chemicals in skins contain aluminum (7) -- HALIDES
10 One body part or another in extremes of heat (5) -- HEART (?)
15 Testing a metal- arsenic, for example (5)
16 Cell division- is it some endless mystery? (7) -- MITOSIS
17 English city where Lt. Boris worked (7) -- BRISTOL
19 At a party, journalist is disconcerted (7)
20 Prepared the dough as required, reportedly (7)
21 Do bounced promissory notes become repulsive? (6)
So, any help for the rest? The answers will probably be out by tomorrow but I want to crack this one before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crosswords"
Here is today's crossword
http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/16/stories/2006011600060900.htm"
I have put my guesses to the right of the clue in white (after the "--"). If you don't want to read my guess and want to work it out by yourself, don't highlight that part!
Across
1 Toss and turn with the aged at the doorway (9)
5 Sorceress with a key inside (5) -- WITCH
8 A flier, fit, can be made less intense (8)
9 In traffic it has a stop and go effect (6) -- SIGNAL
11 Statesman— what a run he managed! (5)
12 Canine transport in America (9) -- GREYHOUND (?)
13 An area to ignore, possibly (6) -- REGION
14 Royal Indian party figuring in the papers (8)
16 Moving around small island, prepare for action (8)
18 Half of them, except Kelvin, get on board (6) -- EMBARK(?)
22 A tribal do produces flap on lorry (9)
23 Bird that managed to get into church (5)
24 Needlework in the theatre (6) -- SATIRE (?)
25 Badly spoiled, hard, but refined (8)
26 A girl's bit of banter (5) -- SILLY (?) :tongue2:
27 Swollen and destined to suffer, with a bit of dysentery (9)
Down
1 A coach to coach the queen (7)
2 Inconsiderate driver, a swine by the way (4,3)
3 Ellis Island monument, a gift from the French (6,2,7) -- STATUE OF LIBERTY
4 Treat boil e.g. and do a favour (6) -- OBLIGE
5 Scale that got Angie chewing him out (8,7) -- WEIGHING MACHINE
6 Shaving the head is not new, certainly (7) -- TONSURE
7 Chemicals in skins contain aluminum (7) -- HALIDES
10 One body part or another in extremes of heat (5) -- HEART (?)
15 Testing a metal- arsenic, for example (5)
16 Cell division- is it some endless mystery? (7) -- MITOSIS
17 English city where Lt. Boris worked (7) -- BRISTOL
19 At a party, journalist is disconcerted (7)
20 Prepared the dough as required, reportedly (7)
21 Do bounced promissory notes become repulsive? (6)
So, any help for the rest? The answers will probably be out by tomorrow but I want to crack this one before that.
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