Crossword 2

Fifty-eight clues, the fewest of any grid here, because six seven-letter answers take up the room that short ones would: DISPLAY, ESCAPES, SYSTEMS, NATURES, POSSESS and PRIESTS. Forty-seven black squares hold them apart.

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1O2A3T4S5U6B7O8F9FICE10P11RONE12WOOLEN13REACH14ERA15DISPLA16Y17CL18A19P20YET21EVE22ESCA23PES24SEW25TWO26T27A28B29O30R31E32S33YSTE34M35S36WON37USE38EDIT39NAT40URES41NO42W43SINGS44C45A46MERA47TRIES48ALARMS49SET50BET

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
58
Black squares
47
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. The grain that porridge is made from
  2. 4. A boat that travels under water
  3. 7. The room where the paperwork gets done
  4. 10. Lying face down
  5. 12. Made from the coat of a sheep
  6. 13. To stretch out your arm and get there
  7. 14. A long stretch of history with a name of its own
  8. 15. To put something where everybody can see it
  9. 17. To hit your hands together to show you liked it
  10. 20. Up to now, and still not
  11. 21. The day just before a big holiday
  12. 22. Gets out of the place it was shut in
  13. 24. To join cloth with needle and thread
  14. 25. The number after one
  15. 26. A small flap you pull to open a carton
  16. 29. Rock with metal hidden inside it
  17. 32. Sets of parts working together
  18. 36. Came first, yesterday
  19. 37. To put something to work
  20. 38. To go over a text and correct it
  21. 39. The characters people are born with
  22. 41. At this very moment
  23. 43. Makes music with the voice
  24. 44. What you take photographs with
  25. 47. Makes an attempt
  26. 48. Bells that wake you up in the morning
  27. 49. A group of things that belong together
  28. 50. Money staked on the result of a race

Down

  1. 1. Slippery liquid used for cooking or for engines
  2. 2. A playing card with a single mark on it
  3. 3. The number after nine
  4. 4. What you wash your hands with
  5. 5. The brothers of your mother or father
  6. 6. To act properly, as you should
  7. 7. To have to pay somebody back
  8. 8. Strength used to push or to pull
  9. 9. Baby horses
  10. 10. The men who lead the services in a church
  11. 11. To stop and take it easy
  12. 15. What you soak cloth in to change its colour
  13. 16. A dark evergreen often found in churchyards
  14. 18. To do something, or one part of a play
  15. 19. An animal foot with soft pads underneath
  16. 23. To have and to hold as your own
  17. 27. Had a meal, yesterday
  18. 28. Where you sleep at night
  19. 29. To have as your property
  20. 30. Cooks a joint of meat in the oven
  21. 31. Whole, with nothing missing
  22. 33. The opposite of no
  23. 34. Somebody who digs coal out of the ground
  24. 35. Wind and rain arriving together
  25. 37. A strong wish to do something
  26. 40. A single thing counted as one
  27. 42. Used to be, said of one person
  28. 44. A car you pay to ride in
  29. 45. A drink brewed from malt and hops
  30. 46. What you wipe your feet on at the door

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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