Crossword 1

Sixty-four answers, with AIRLINE and WEIGHTS the longest of them and POTATO, METHOD and DRAMAS among the crossings. Thirty-two of the answers are three letters long, so wherever you get stuck there is something short beside it to try instead.

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1H2O3L4D5S6H7E8T9W10O11ODOR12S13PAR14WIN15PETAL16AIR17LINE18MO19W20RAISE21P22O23TATO24NETS25ERAS26R27O28AD29TEN30SAG31W32O33K34MERE35CARE36A37C38HE39N40EARBY41ROOT42S43TAR44WEIGHT45S46TO47D48A49Y50INN51OIL52SLOPE53GAS54DRY55SEES

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
64
Black squares
42
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. To keep something in your hands
  2. 5. That girl or woman
  3. 8. The number after one
  4. 11. Bad smells
  5. 13. The score a good golfer should take on a hole
  6. 14. To come first
  7. 15. One coloured leaf of a flower
  8. 16. A company that flies passengers from city to city
  9. 18. To cut the grass short
  10. 20. To lift something higher
  11. 21. A vegetable dug up and often mashed
  12. 24. Meshes that catch fish or stop balls
  13. 25. Named stretches of history
  14. 26. The paved way that cars travel on
  15. 29. The number after nine
  16. 30. To droop in the middle
  17. 31. A round pan for quick frying
  18. 34. Nothing more than
  19. 35. To look after somebody, or to be concerned
  20. 36. A dull pain that will not go away
  21. 39. Only a short distance away
  22. 41. The parts of a plant under the soil
  23. 43. Black sticky stuff spread on roads
  24. 44. Heavy pieces lifted for exercise
  25. 46. This very day
  26. 50. A small country hotel with a bar
  27. 51. Slippery liquid used for cooking or for engines
  28. 52. Ground that runs downhill
  29. 53. Fuel that burns with a blue flame
  30. 54. With no water in it at all
  31. 55. Takes in with the eyes

Down

  1. 1. To jump along on one foot
  2. 2. A poem written in praise of something
  3. 3. A large amount
  4. 4. Serious plays, on stage or on screen
  5. 5. A place people go to bathe and relax
  6. 6. What grows on your head
  7. 7. A short trip to fetch or deliver something
  8. 8. To turn something around on itself
  9. 9. Drinks made from grapes
  10. 10. The first number of all
  11. 12. A narrow opening you post a coin into
  12. 17. Something said that is not true
  13. 19. Not as good as it was before
  14. 21. An animal kept at home for company
  15. 22. Rock with metal hidden inside it
  16. 23. The brown the sun gives your skin
  17. 27. What you row a boat with
  18. 28. Someone who acts on behalf of another person
  19. 31. Fighting between two countries
  20. 32. A sphere, especially a shining one
  21. 33. What you turn in a lock
  22. 34. An orderly way of doing something
  23. 35. The songs people sing door to door in December
  24. 36. The ring where a sport is played in front of a crowd
  25. 37. Round pieces of metal money
  26. 38. A pig, especially a large one
  27. 40. Takes a meal
  28. 42. To move a spoon round in a cup
  29. 44. False hair worn on the head
  30. 45. Clever in a sneaky sort of way
  31. 47. A female deer or rabbit
  32. 48. A large primate with no tail
  33. 49. The opposite of no

About this puzzle

Thirteen by thirteen, with the black squares in rotational symmetry: turn the sheet upside down and the pattern is the same one. Every white square belongs to an across answer and to a down answer, so every letter can be worked out two ways — which is what separates a crossword from a grid with words dropped into it. The clues were all written by hand, one for each answer, and the filled grid prints on the second page.

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