DARE magazine - Issue 21 (September-October 2023)

MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

DOWN

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104. Strode 106. Gamut 108. Neither 109. Rowing blade 110. Bushranger, ... Kelly 112. Beating 116. Compass reading (1,1,1) 118. Retaliate for 120. Eye intently 121. From ... to toe 123. Pencil-mark remover 125. Rove

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112. Tested (5,3) 113. Blossoming

Erupting mountain

Church officer

5. 9.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Prepared

Networks of tunnels

114. Wellbeing 115. Macabre 117. Annul 119. Bite lightly 120. Let go by (6,2) 122. Cuties 124. Computer modifying key 132. Laid siege to 133. Dead ... dodo (2,1) 134. Mashes (food) 135. Sequence 137. Trump card 138. Cliffs 140. Splits up (land) 141. Minor 143. Trapped (fish) 145. Presence (at event)

Japan’s capital

Apportionments

12. Substantial 16. Cousin’s father 17. Mutineer 18. Sharp-cornered 20. Truncate 22. Make ashamed 23. Moved overseas 24. Medical centre 26. Oscar-winner, Al ... 27. Indian side dish 28. Amplification 31. Unabbreviated 32. Jerked 34. Slackers 36. Came across 37. Children 40. Printing fluid 42. Cabs 43. Fable writer 45. Took umbrage 47. Anaesthetic 49. Half-hearted 50. Relayed (6,2) 52. Pips 54. Ventured 55. Desires 56. Unhatched lice

Endorsing

Syncopated piano music

AB, ... seaman

Cosmonaut, ... Gagarin

Zodiac symbol

Udder tip 10. Kurdistan native 11. Veteran (3,4) 12. Barren 13. Fanaticism

126. Desolate 127. Piquancy 128. Upon 129. CIA moles

14. Idea 15. Urge

19. I agree! 21. Finest

130. Cleaner (water) 131. Identical sibling 132. Wild animal 134. Puckers 136. Bluish-grey 139. Scatter 141. Relief medico 142. Confine (3,2) 144. Rink boot (3,5) 146. Bye! 147. French river 148. Curved bone 149. Highway lamp 151. Effort 152. Changes 155. Appetiser 158. Imitating 159. Smug (4-9) 162. Calendar girl (3-2) 164. Hue & cry 165. Internet business 166. Female hormone 170. Snake, puff ...

25. Golfer’s aide 26. Self-confident 29. Craved 30. Subsided 33. Fills with joy

150. Teaching 153. Property 154. Russian empress 156. Doting on 157. Lottery receipts 158. Romantic fling 160. Fuss 161. Paws or hooves 163. Warsaw is there

35. Panthers 36. Sousing 38. Rough guess 39. End of car’s exhaust 41. Nursery school 42. Set (up) 44. Review savagely

166. Swine noise 167. Auld Lang ... 168. Wind blast 169. Weather feature, El ...

46. Houston folk 48. Sleeve type 49. Boredom

58. Arch-rival 59. ... or lower 60. Catalogue 61. AD, ... Domini 62. Pixie-like 63. Swirl 64. Magnate

51. Tenacious person 53. Winter sculpture 55. Hoeing 57. Brazil’s ... Paulo 60. Eve’s cover, ... leaf 65. Friendship 66. Former

67. Squash (fly) 68. Walks softly 69. Milk/egg/rum drink 72. Psychedelic drug (1,1,1)

171. Tartness 172. Harness

70. Transmission cogs 71. Mischievousness 73. Stun 75. Doughnut or gateau 76. Quips (3-6) 77. Tender 78. In another place 83. Fellows 84. Steam bath 85. Having an advantage (3-2) 86. Physicist, ... Newton 89. City, ... Francisco

74. Minimise costs 78. Before (poetic) 79. America (1,1,1)

173. Ninjutsu fighter 174. Dressed to the ... 175. Remainder 176. Leg joint 177. Leather strap 178. Put off (proceedings)

80. Nought 81. Scrape

82. Slender bottle tops 85. Round gasket (1-4) 87. Legal entitlement 88. Small chunks 90. Newspaper captions 91. Pleads 92. Ark builder 93. ... & flora 94. Archery missile 95. Exclusive English college 96. Savannah big cat 97. Headland 100. Indiana’s neighbour 102. Sad movie 103. Spaghetti or noodles

91. ... & hiss 92. Kiwi (3,9) 96. Perjuring oneself 98. Engrave 99. Turfed area 101. Requisition 103. Forestall (3-4) 105. Gives freely 107. Impertinence 111. Spookier

Solutions on page 84

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