I NDULGE / PUZZL E S
CRYPTIC & STRAIGHT CROSSWORD Tackle either set of these clues – you can even mix and match them, because the solutions are the same for both sets.
RED HERRINGS Fill in the gaps with letters to find the names of eight capital cities. Only eight? Yes, two of the examples are red herrings and won’t produce anything but frustration. All the answers have six letters.
STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS 1. Expenses (5) 4. Embroidered design (5) 7. 8. Fifty per cent (4) 12. Wagers (4) 14. Alpaca relative (5) 15. Disclaim (4) 17. 24-hour periods (4) 21. Packed away, in ... (7)
Portable rocket-launcher (7)
SEEING DOUBLE Each pair of words share two middle letters. The first has been filled in as an example. Complete the remaining words to find the mystery keyword reading down.
23. Flanks (5) 24. Veers (5) DOWN 1.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1.
Prices lettuce on backstreet (5) 4. Recurring theme seen if following Tom around (5) 7. Graduate makes kazoo into weapon (7) 8. Sort of time when footballers should listen to their coach (4) 12. What a gambler does best, perhaps (4) 14. Beast to kill a man and eliminate kin (5) 15. Reject study? Why? (4) 17. Sunday-school shows – there’s seven every week! (4)
Car accident (5)
2. U-boat (3) 3. Scale (4) 4. Natural satellite (4) 5. Taunt (5) 6. Founders (5) 9. Cancel (TV show) (3) 10. Insect (3) 11. Beret (3) 12. Naughty (3) 13. Trifle (with) (3) 15. Titled women (5) 16. Nuzzled (5) 18. Vaults (5) 19. Feather scarves (4) 20. Lure (4) 22. Head of wheat (3)
21. Rat goes crazy in stowage space (7) 23. They can be taken in conflicts (5) 24. Part of Saturn silently rotates (5)
DOWN 1.
Plough right into money (5) 2. Bus reverses into navy vessel (3) 3. Loud sighs can be small or large (4) 4. It goes around the world starting mayhem out of nothing (4) 5. Rib initially tickled with ease (5) 6. Doesn’t succeed in extremely fair trials (5) 9. Taxed for keeping chopper (3)
10. Move quickly after horse or dragon (3) 11. Capone ignored one type of gun (3) 12. Every other character aboard is villainous (3)
13. Tolstoy’s secret plaything (3) 15. Ladies raise mad points (5) 16. Last surgeon to mix up dose moved forward carefully (5) 18. Unthreatened workers finally found in banks (5) 19. Snakes that go around your neck (4) 20. I go into bat as decoy (4) 22. Organ that can be lent on request? (3)
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