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version: standard v1 | ||
name: CROSSWORD 15,559 | ||
author: BRADMAN | ||
editor: Colin Inman | ||
copyright: 2017, Financial Times | ||
publisher: Financial Times | ||
pubdate: 2017/05/26 | ||
size: 15x15 | ||
across: | ||
- (1,1) 1. A POW cell is unlikely to provide a bit of bed linen (PILLOWCASE) | ||
- (12,1) 6. When suffering setback wimps fret (STEW) | ||
- (1,3) 9. A very small worker cultivated land endlessly, setting the trend (AVANT-GARDE) | ||
- (12,3) 10. A new cricket side will get together in a while (ANON) | ||
- (4,5) 12. Study of a heavenly body, dancing angel so hyper (SELENOGRAPHY) | ||
- (1,7) 15. Initially those reinforcements helped and worked hard (TRAVAILED) | ||
- (11,7) 17. Long after sunbathing one may see this dance (TANGO) | ||
- (1,9) 18. Mostly hard work when one is in group of entertainers (CHOIR) | ||
- (7,9) 19. Get rid of factory producing explosive devices (FIREWORKS) | ||
- (1,11) 20. Characters held by copper are seen to be so careful (SOFTLY-SOFTLY) | ||
- (1,13) 24. Rebel army facing question in country (IRAQ) | ||
- (6,13) 25. What could make cot go slimy? One looks at mouldy stuff (MYCOLOGIST) | ||
- (1,15) 26. Place where a lady powders her nose, we hear? (LIEU) | ||
- (6,15) 27. Get hard with son terribly self-willed (HEADSTRONG) | ||
down: | ||
- (1,1) 1. Design of apparatus inadequate (PLAN) | ||
- (3,1) 2. No problem for Mr Sprat, being thin (LEAN) | ||
- (5,1) 3. Another Polly working, employed by the company (ON,THE,PAYROLL) | ||
- (7,1) 4. Longing to be less than totally cowardly (CRAVE) | ||
- (9,1) 5. Dish desired after battle – soldiers tucked in (SIDE,ORDER) | ||
- (13,1) 7. Kitchen gadgets in store moved outside enclosure (TIN,OPENERS) | ||
- (15,1) 8. What offers a domestic structure for children playing (WENDY,HOUSE) | ||
- (11,4) 11. Girl and boy taken in by illegal seller? It’s sure to get heard about (TRUTH,WILL,OUT) | ||
- (1,6) 13. Goods in front of cash-receiver not shifting at all (STOCK-STILL) | ||
- (3,6) 14. Call UFO image phony – not fine one, a sort of optical trick? (CAMOUFLAGE) | ||
- (7,7) 16. A way of being silly with feet all over the place (LIFESTYLE) | ||
- (9,11) 21. Jack sits in car in a body of water (FJORD) | ||
- (13,12) 22. Artist makes marks with topless pen (MIRO) | ||
- (15,12) 23. Caveman a disgrace ousting mother (STIG) | ||
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# Notes on the text format... | ||
# Can't use square brackets or speech marks. | ||
# A clue has the form | ||
# - (COORDINATES) ID. Clue text (ANSWER) | ||
# Coordinates of clue in grid are (across,down), so (1,1) = top left, (17,17) = bottom right. | ||
# ID is a number, followed by a full stop. | ||
# (WORDS,IN,ANSWER): capitalised, and separated by commas or hyphens, or (numbers) separated by commas or hyphens. | ||
# ANSWERS with all words of XXXXXX are converted to numbers. | ||
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version: standard v1 | ||
name: Polymath 917 | ||
author: Aardvark | ||
editor: Colin Inman | ||
copyright: 2017, Financial Times | ||
publisher: Financial Times | ||
pubdate: 2017/05/13 | ||
size: 17x17 | ||
across: | ||
- (1,1) 1. Two rocks flanking the Strait of Gibraltar (PILLARS,OF,HERCULES) | ||
- (1,3) 10. Song from the musical West Side Story (MARIA) | ||
- (7,3) 11. Analgesic for mild pain (PARACETAMOL) | ||
- (1,5) 12. Specialist in the microscopic study of animal tissues (HISTOLOGIST) | ||
- (13,5) 13. Low-growing pine tree of North America (PINON) | ||
- (1,7) 14. Subsonic tactical missile travelling at low altitude (EXOCET) | ||
- (9,7) 15. Leading instructor in the Hindu faith (MAHARISHI) | ||
- (1,9) 18. Site of the original settlement of Salisbury (OLD,SARUM) | ||
- (10,9) 20. In heraldry, lying down with head raised (COUCHANT) | ||
- (1,11) 22. Writer of the comedy play The Alchemist (BEN,JONSON) | ||
- (12,11) 24. Number one single by the Brotherhood of Man (ANGELO) | ||
- (1,13) 27. Barb of a bird’s feather (RAMUS) | ||
- (7,13) 29. Rugby union club based at Old Deer Park, Richmond (LONDON,WELSH) | ||
- (1,15) 30. Structure in the cochlea containing auditory receptors (CORTIS,ORGAN) | ||
- (13,15) 31. Notched gourd used for percussion in Latin America (GUIRO) | ||
- (1,17) 32. 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine (TERMS,OF,ENDEARMENT) | ||
down: | ||
- (1,1) 1. One of the Grey Sisters in Greek mythology (PEMPHREDO) | ||
- (3,1) 2. Photographer born Anthony Armstrong-Jones (1930-2017) (LORD,SNOWDON) | ||
- (5,1) 3. Large edible shellfish called the sea-ear (ABALONE) | ||
- (7,1) 4. Philosophical term for a wise person (SOPHOS) | ||
- (9,1) 5. Synthetic radioactive metallic element (FERMIUM) | ||
- (11,1) 6. Shield on which a coat of arms is represented (ESCUTCHEON) | ||
- (13,1) 7. Relating to reflections or mirrors (CATOPTRIC) | ||
- (15,1) 8. Cavity or passage in a tubular organ (LUMEN) | ||
- (17,1) 9. Thick muscles on the back of the neck (SPLENII) | ||
- (15,7) 16. England’s highest mountain (SCAFELL,PIKE) | ||
- (7,8) 17. City containing the Rheinturm telecom tower (DUSSELDORF) | ||
- (5,9) 19. The physical quality of a space for performing music (ACOUSTIC) | ||
- (17,9) 21. Pale fleshy plant of the broomrape family (TOOTHWORT) | ||
- (1,11) 22. Russian and Polish beetroot soup (BORSCHT) | ||
- (9,11) 23. Nine-sided geometrical figure (NONAGON) | ||
- (13,11) 25. Believer in alternative medicine, astrology, spiritualism etc (NEW,AGER) | ||
- (11,12) 26. In ballet, the extreme tip of the toe (POINTE) | ||
- (3,13) 28. Loch -----, the deepest freshwater body in British Isles (MORAR) | ||
# | ||
# Notes on the text format... | ||
# Can't use square brackets or speech marks. | ||
# A clue has the form | ||
# - (COORDINATES) ID. Clue text (ANSWER) | ||
# Coordinates of clue in grid are (across,down), so (1,1) = top left, (17,17) = bottom right. | ||
# ID is a number, followed by a full stop. | ||
# (WORDS,IN,ANSWER): capitalised, and separated by commas or hyphens, or (numbers) separated by commas or hyphens. | ||
# ANSWERS with all words of XXXXXX are converted to numbers. | ||
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