WIN! A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8. Lara gains flips a little over North American waterfall (7)
9. Share out what sounds like many (5)
10. Some show his tricks in card game (5)
11. Walked by Rod and Den on junction (7)
12. Lady turns on first news of folk singer Bob (5)
13. Rip off woolly coat! (6)
16. Rain on movie alien in hold (6)
18. With an open mouth at a page turner (5)
22. Nick ate up from baking container (4,3)
24. Ural flows from right of country (5)
25. Clean and search intently (5)
26. A hip cat cooked Indian bread (7)
DOWN
1. Understands nose, we hear (5)
2. Equality sees one enter party (6)
3. Mar pitas remade with spicy beef (8)
4. Can’t circle one part of a long poem (5)
5. Hal finds nothing but ring of light (4)
6. Hammer with sporting jibe! (6)
7. Smelly person to point to mischievous child (7)
14. Cricket delivery sounds painful! (3,5)
15. System for rotten corpses (7)
17. Poor Kate on to adopt (4,2)
19. Entrance leads Al to fortified wine (6)
20. Bite to eat not initially found in sack (5)
21. Patterned fabric quietly put down (5)
23. Weary of noisy part of wheel (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.
$1000 PRIZE See ‘How To Enter’ (last page)
THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Adult tadpoles
4. Fade from sight
8. No Time To Die star, … Craig
12. Hoard secretly
16. Israeli port city
18. Ornate decoration
19. State-of-the-art refit, … of the kitchen
21. Light comic opera