Bradworthy News - August 1999

Eric's crossword puzzle

The clue last month was of course in the box - this really was an ‘all our yesterdays’ grid. Eric hadn't done a crossword, so I gave him one I told him I'd written (but it was one he'd actually set in October 1992) and then I asked him to check it was correct. He couldn't do it! Tee hee. Did anyone else manage it?

Across 1 Distraught (11) 7 Inhume (5) 8 An innate capability (5) 9 Observe (3) 10 Gloomy and strange (5) 13 Minor local official (5) 16 Cuts down moorland?(5) 19 Looked intently and fixedly(5) 22 Hill (3) 23 Unfasten (5) 24 ‘Poppy-juice’(5) 25 Instrument for measuring temperature(11)

Down 1 Hold an opinion(5) 2 To place on a list or in a record(5) 3 More bad (5) 4 Present for consideration(5) 5 Reduce to shreds (5) 6 Concise, to the point (5) 11 Girl from the night before (3) 12 Sick (3) 14 System of chronology reckoning from a noteworthy event (3) 15 Strive for superiority (3) 16 A defect or imperfection (5) 17 Machine for shaping wood(5) 18 Water vapour (5) 19 Make presentable(5) 20 A tapered end (5) 21 Raise scruples or objections(5)

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