mathNEWS Issue 86.3: Friday, June 15, 2001

GridWord

[grid3.gif]

Grid Clues (Cryptic)

Across

  1. You have better ideas on it (6,7)
  2. Speaker, cite Norm liberally (8)
  3. Organ part (i.e. mixed with peas) (4)
  4. Say, since you're correct, it is blue (7)
  5. Threesome dumped Rod at dirt road turnaround (5)
  6. Scarceness less crass prospect (5)
  7. The leader? His head should have one in it (7)
  8. Buy in, Grasshopper (4)
  9. Hub is not upmarket (8)
  10. A tenured guard stumbled into student (13)

Down

  1. Seed head (4)
  2. Mark, go back inside, dear (3-3)
  3. Train built with alms from wrongly-emasculated (7)
  4. Jingle Bells sells (5)
  5. Dress horse (6)
  6. Hurt hip in shawl accident (8)
  7. Squash animal park, seize leaders hiding in back (8)
  8. Guy who hams, now juggles (7)
  9. Relative few heard preliminary points (6)
  10. At heart, Great-Aunt Rue is a fibber (6)
  11. Saw commercial time (5)
  12. Width less diameter is close (4)

Grid Clues (Conventional)

Across

  1. A Canadian basketball player
  2. Positively definite
  3. Have to have
  4. Releases on probation
  5. Pumpernickel or wonder
  6. Flavourless
  7. Net-minders
  8. Takes advantage of
  9. Things worthy of attention
  10. Thorough thought

Down

  1. Lara Croft: ____ Raider
  2. Fellow primate
  3. Oktoberfest dessert
  4. Wetness lessener
  5. First game
  6. Woman in math Ada
  7. Indirect reference
  8. Bend funny
  9. Emphatically request
  10. Canadian brewer, but not of Canadian
  11. Negative terminal of a bettery
  12. Ghostbuster Spengler


Copyright © 1998 mathNEWS.