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The Big Issue : Edition 463
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44 THE BIG ISSUE 18 – 31 JULY 2014 DOWN 1. MC with love for a singing group (5) 2. Pet Jetsons’ dog chiefly protected that guy from disaster (11) 3. Fill up ten jars – that’s ample (9) 4. Rang on the phone and informed (4) 5. Thriller performer with Led Zeppelin artist (4-6) 6. Stop working, losing one right to join again (5) 7. Report downsized block (3) 8. Backing trader failing to open shop (9) 13. Wise men follow one country’s vision (11) 14. Lewd sirens torment and tangle (10) 15. Show extreme paintings all over restaurant (9) 16. Out of control dunce wrecked outside – 22 Down! (9) 20. Pull off sporting outfit (5) 22. Crikey – Kylie keeps ignoring the odds (5) 23. Firm denial (4) 25. Second half missing from Oz film title (3) OINTMENT CROSSWORD » by Rachel Kelly ACROSS 1. Pick out bed covering and fly from here (7) 5. Fit to follow average Bible story (7) 9. Choose component of helicopter (3) 1 0 . Aware Sienna’s heart lifted (11) 11. Takes test over fight to promote extreme character (6) 1 2 . More determined pilot welcomes rest (8) 15. Somehow their housing division is more economical (9) 16. Pack of gum, a minty taste (5) 17. Shock when a shroud is picked up (5) 18. Chilling with no trouble after anorak repelled soaking (9) 19. Journey cut short by a certain pirate’s pursuit (8) 21. Inheritance left for one with a crusty exterior (6) 24. Rate setter’s sneakier verb mix after I leave? (7,4) 26. Noise from pig dispatches duck found in pen? (3) 27. Incidentally, a rugby player lost heart (7) 2 8 . News broadcast Asian arguments (7) Soothing balm for brains and bystanders FIRST DRAFTS OF CLICHÉS Those phrases we say everyday weren’t always this way... 1. I don’t know art but I know what I like, and what I like is dogs playing poker. 2. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and your frenemies somewhere in the middle. 3. Can’t see the forest for the bees. 4. The devil’s in the retails. 5. Don’t count your chickens if you have more than, say, 15 because they tend to run around a lot. 6. Not for love or monkey. 7. A bull in a shop in China. 8. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, apart from at Nan’s. 9. A friend in need is a nefriended. 10. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. 11. Laughter is the best medicine, apart from all the other medicines. 12. It’s time to bite the bullock. 13. Two wrongs don’t make a right; they make wrongwrong. 14. This is a Kojak moment. 15. Is the Pope Catholic? Yes of course he is, he’s the Pope. by The List Operators CRYPTIC CLUES The answers for the cryptic and quick clues are the same. QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1. Pilot’s space (7) 5. Allegorical story with a moral lesson (7) 9. Choose (3) 10. Well-informed (11) 11. Undertakes exam again (6) 12. More unfeeling (8) 15. More frugal (9) 16. Savoury flavour (5) 17. Dismay (5) 18. Soaking (9) 19. Cherish (8) 21. A bequest (6) 24. Issuer of national currency (7,4) 26. Cuttlefish’s fluid (3) 27. By the way (7) 28. News (7) DOWN 1. Group of singers (5) 2. Sudden disaster (11) 3. Abundant (9) 4. Narrated (4) 5. Exciting novel (4-6) 6. Knot again (5) 7. Prohibition (3) 8. Signing (9) 13. Mental creative ability (11) 14. Area of uncultivated land (10) 15. Italian restaurant (9) 16. Not ticked (9) 20. Remove clothes (5) 22. Crikey (5) 23. Speedy (4) 25. Knight’s title (3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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