mathNEWS Issue 91.4: Friday, February 28, 2003

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Cryptic Grid Clues

Across

  1. Fondle funny looking wrap (6)
  2. Force more than fifty grand into Order of the British Empire (6)
  3. Begin organizing prime even numbers (4)
  4. Fair trade: pound for halved quotas (4,3,3)
  5. Sex cell: sport and French inside (6)
  6. Tired of freeloader (8)
  7. One change to encourage court (9)
  8. Reportedly regretted being impolite (4)
  9. Stocking punch (4)
  10. Can I caddy in new style campaign? (9)
  11. Generate new beverage (5,3)
  12. Purpose determined (6)
  13. Gaff they'll adapt to show their colours (3,3,4)
  14. Trained, they say, under tension (4)
  15. Hires personnel with rods (6)
  16. Tenant heard gossip (6)

Down

  1. Excuse rootless exploration (7)
  2. Price to include North Carolina barricade (5)
  3. Oblique urbanite hid drink (7)
  4. So no more playboys, kinky extra business (6)
  5. Press jump for something inflexible (9)
  6. Copy of Big Bird delayed (7)
  7. Boiled a badger soup that's organic (13)
  8. Her actors confused players (9)
  9. Sir, I heard positive extra (7)
  10. Eager in tidying townhouse (5,2)
  11. Take over in lexicon query (7)
  12. Stifle bad pronoun (6)
  13. Tailor's first love met returning emblem (5)

Conventional Grid Clues

Across

  1. Yard borders
  2. Farm tool
  3. Proof of being in a fight
  4. Making perfect
  5. More plentiful
  6. On a higher level
  7. Spanning everything
  8. Matured
  9. Remedy to a disease
  10. Waiting on
  11. Someone with an iron ring
  12. Donut or eclair
  13. Groups of musicians
  14. Element Fe
  15. A bicycle seat
  16. Grown-ups

Down

  1. An untrue story
  2. Compass point
  3. Type of penguin (with devotion to the egg)
  4. Most recent
  5. Remained the same
  6. A perfect square
  7. Makers or producers
  8. Coated with lacquer
  9. Middles of spheres
  10. Revealed the truth about
  11. Brooklyn to Staten Island, Verrazano _______ Bridge
  12. Container
  13. Does not move


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