Bradworthy News - May 1999

Eric's crossword puzzle

Here is the answers to last month’s rarity, a crossword puzzle. Sally is apparently saving all her old puzzle books to encourage Eric! Nancy will defrost him a duck when he gets it done. Or was it a chicken?

A slightly different crossword this month. The answers run from right to left and from the bottom upwards - leading to a familiar scenario!

Across 1. Terry Venables’ motor? 4. An old motor? 7. Used for sewing 8. Men Boa 9. Less than gibber 10. Head cook (and bottle washer?) 12. A longing 14. Almost faded 16. A bit of a card 17. A virgin perhaps, ready for the picking 20. Well, she didn’t stick around very long 23. Container for water 24. As in "... bodily harm" 25. "Get ..." 26. Might be 27. A fitting colour for custard

Down 1. Part balaclava 2. Stirred in the mire 3. A kind of mob 4. I get one every time Joanna Lumley is on the box! 5. Haughtily smells 6. Judge ... 11. Think of toes , think of carpet,... 13. Oathful charge 15. It’s a theory 16. Palermo is not its Capital 18. Permit 19. Unit 21. My cup is ... 22.

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