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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS
7. Braver ten tie up spineless animal (12)
8. Dog set about heavy, indigestible food (6)
9. Loudly mock her type of coffee (5)
10. Just a few, in the early afternoon? (3,2,3)
13. Story of ale after tea initially (4)
15. Joint turns Ken to East (4)
16. Set fire to one gate – so take to court (8)
17. Lazy person terribly riled (5)
19. Changes ads with apt middle (6)
21. Provided a home for poor Madam Coco and Ted (12)

DOWN
1. Nine turn up on list to eavesdrop (6,2)
2. Very keen to see part of a video (4)
3. From Asia relation moves (8)
4. Specific word for part of school year (4)
5. New pic, great cost label (5,3)
6. Volcano turns up in Atlantean middle (4)

11. Finished search, then ignore (8)
12. Not in hospital rooms from the centre (8)

14. Freedom to move to line north or south of the equator (8)
17. Desire Mitchell at heart (4)

18. Slope right to a politician (4)
20. Terrible rat, yes, is creative (4)

SUDOKU

Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.

THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

$1000 PRIZE

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ACROSS

1. Small Asian two-wheeled carriage
5. Infant’s cradle
8. Thin and insubstantial
11. Sagittarius star symbol
16. Musical opening (abbrev)
17. Rotation imparted on
the ball in tennis, eg
19. Embed surgically
20. Guardians Of The Galaxy star, … Pratt
21. Travel cost, train …

22. All Black and Masked Singer star, Stephen ...

23. Tips over, … the rubbish bin
25. Imperial rulers of ancient Rome