Bradworthy News - May 2001

Crossword, by Eric Mitchell

Last months winner gets the £10. Who is he/she? Don’t know. He/she said money to go to the Church Restoration Fund. So we’re none the wiser. Tough. Does this mean we’re going to get entries from the Chapel, the Community Wood, the RSPB or the MBF? Doubt it, especially the MBF. Well it’s back to normal, the usual £5 to the winner, the usual error in the clues and the usual misspelt answer. I can’t help it. Blame Phil Mayhall. Who else would ask a dyslexic to compile a crossword? Correct answers, by the 20th May, to Eric Mitchell at The Old School House, all others to Phil Mayhall. On with the motley!

Across 1 A firm belief in one’s self (10) 8 Pipes need some elbow grease! (7) 9 One’s public persona? (5) 10 With style and vigour (4) 11 A swelling, not a dwelling! (4) 12 Fish describes an untrustworty person (3) 14 Not too sure about things... (6) 15 Assuming the duties of another, for the moment (6) 18 Maying season brings out the same old routine (3) 20 Woe and dispair (4) 21 A division of persons by rank or grade (4) 23 Supports flogging (5) 24 A title (7) 25 Careful use of resources(10)

Down 1 Collection of unrelated things (7) 2 Old English vegetable (4) 3 Inherent (6) 4 That which confirms (8) 5 Large container for an old car (5) 6 System of unnecessary red tape (11) 7 Bellicose (11) 13 Political killer was a drug addict? (8) 16 In the beginning... (7) 17 Mineral found in metamorphic rock (6) 19 Restorative (5) 22 Some poem! (4)

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