Crossword 3

COMPARE and ELEGANT are the long answers, with STRAPS, LEMONS, POINTS and DELETE crossing them. Sixty-four clues on a grid that is a quarter black — the shape that keeps the answers short and every letter checked by two of them.

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What is on this sheet

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

Across

  1. 1. Not switched on
  2. 4. The drops of water on the grass first thing in the morning
  3. 7. A large group of cattle grazing together
  4. 11. Somebody paid to play a sport
  5. 12. A long stretch of history with a name of its own
  6. 13. To do with the far north or the far south
  7. 14. Black sticky stuff spread on roads
  8. 15. To put something down flat
  9. 16. Somebody on the opposite side
  10. 17. Animals bred from a horse and a donkey
  11. 19. A thick round piece of a tree trunk
  12. 20. To send out light, sound or smoke
  13. 21. Bands of leather that hold things on
  14. 24. The speed a piece of music is played at
  15. 27. To break with a sharp sound
  16. 28. A curved line, like part of a circle
  17. 31. What you row a boat with
  18. 32. To make an effort
  19. 33. A circle made by a rope or a road
  20. 35. To wish good things upon somebody
  21. 38. Sour yellow fruits
  22. 40. Wide open containers for water
  23. 43. A dish baked with pastry over the top
  24. 44. Something nice given as a reward
  25. 45. To lean over to one side
  26. 47. A pair who perform together
  27. 48. A hot drink made from leaves
  28. 50. The pieces that make up a whole
  29. 51. A small country hotel with a bar
  30. 52. A female chicken that lays eggs
  31. 53. Gorillas and chimpanzees, for example
  32. 54. A wooden pin for hanging washing on a line
  33. 55. Clever in a sneaky sort of way

Down

  1. 1. To choose one thing over another
  2. 2. The wooden edge around a picture
  3. 3. A place where people meet to discuss things
  4. 4. To rub out what you have written
  5. 5. Named stretches of history
  6. 6. The route from here to there
  7. 7. Awards given for doing something well
  8. 8. Graceful and beautifully simple
  9. 9. A male sheep
  10. 10. With no water in it at all
  11. 13. An animal skin with the fur still on it
  12. 18. Set alight, or filled with light
  13. 21. Painful when touched
  14. 22. The score a good golfer should take on a hole
  15. 23. Somebody who gathers secrets for a country
  16. 25. Noisy, disorderly crowds
  17. 26. A close friend
  18. 28. Every last one, with none left out
  19. 29. Fish eggs
  20. 30. To hold two things side by side and see how they differ
  21. 34. The score you have won so far
  22. 36. Able to lift and carry a great deal
  23. 37. To take somebody to court
  24. 39. Meshes that catch fish or stop balls
  25. 41. Long tubs you fill with warm water
  26. 42. Hard metal made from iron
  27. 44. A short piece of music you can hum
  28. 45. A place people go to bathe and relax
  29. 46. One circuit of a running track
  30. 47. To lower something briefly into a liquid
  31. 49. One or some, it does not matter which

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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