Crossword 11

CANNONS and SCIENCE are the longest answers, with SPACES, CATTLE, RESORT and COLONY around them. Sixty clues, of which only twenty-eight are three letters long — the balance leans towards answers you have to stop and think about.

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1G2R3A4Y5E6A7R8SLICE9S10PACE11S12MINTS13CATTLE14AIDS15PIT16OAT17SLEE18T19RES20ORT21HER22I23CON24USE25PEA26C27AT28S29PA30N31EED32D33O34T35COL36ONY37D38RIVE39ART40DOE41OVEN42REA43SON44S45TAIN46METERS47HERDS48NOW49EASE

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
60
Black squares
43
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. The colour of storm clouds
  2. 5. What you hear with
  3. 8. A thin flat piece cut from a loaf
  4. 9. The empty gaps between things
  5. 12. Sweets that taste of a cool green herb
  6. 13. The cows and bulls kept on a farm
  7. 14. Gives help to somebody in trouble
  8. 15. A deep hole in the ground
  9. 16. The grain that porridge is made from
  10. 17. Rain and snow falling together
  11. 19. A place people go for a seaside holiday
  12. 21. Belonging to that woman
  13. 22. A small picture you tap on a screen
  14. 24. To put something to work
  15. 25. A small round green vegetable
  16. 26. A small furry pet that purrs
  17. 28. A place people go to bathe and relax
  18. 30. To have to have something
  19. 32. A very small round mark
  20. 35. A whole community of ants living together
  21. 37. To steer a car along the road
  22. 39. Painting, drawing and sculpture together
  23. 40. A female deer or rabbit
  24. 41. The hot box you bake a cake in
  25. 42. The why behind a thing
  26. 44. A mark that will not wash out
  27. 46. The dials that measure the gas and the water
  28. 47. Big groups of grazing animals
  29. 48. At this very moment
  30. 49. Freedom from effort or difficulty

Down

  1. 1. An aircraft that flies without an engine
  2. 2. To wash with clean water and nothing else
  3. 3. To do something, or one part of a play
  4. 4. The opposite of no
  5. 5. To take food into your mouth
  6. 6. The people you watch on stage or on screen
  7. 7. To tell a story from beginning to end
  8. 8. What your mouth does when you are happy
  9. 9. The study of the world by experiment
  10. 10. Touches lightly with an open hand
  11. 11. A group of things that belong together
  12. 14. The grey powder left after a fire
  13. 15. Somebody paid to play a sport
  14. 18. To fasten with a knot
  15. 20. Not inside
  16. 23. Heavy guns on wheels, used in old battles
  17. 25. A close friend
  18. 27. To put numbers together to find the total
  19. 28. What you watch a film on
  20. 29. A vegetable dug up and often mashed
  21. 31. What you see with
  22. 32. To split a thing into parts
  23. 33. Hot boxes used for baking
  24. 34. The number after nine
  25. 36. A smell, usually an unpleasant one
  26. 38. Makes the deep sound a lion makes
  27. 39. The limb between your shoulder and your hand
  28. 43. To join cloth with needle and thread
  29. 44. That girl or woman
  30. 45. A hot drink made from leaves

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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