Crossword 4

ROOSTER, WEAPONS, PEPPERS and GUITARS: four seven-letter answers, and nothing in the grid longer than they are. Sixty-two clues in all, so no single answer carries the whole puzzle on its own.

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1W2A3S4O5D6E7G8A9S10ALL11TEA12P13AUSE14ROO15STER16ALIKE17UPPER18NET19DEAR20STRA21P22S23S24O25RE26TREE27R28A29P30WON31SAT32AGE33S34NET35S36TOPI37CS38T39H40A41T42PRO43PRIDE44S45HEET46WEAPON47S48HORNS49HEN50POP51YES52OLD53TRY

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
62
Black squares
44
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. Used to be, said of one person
  2. 4. A poem written in praise of something
  3. 7. Fuel that burns with a blue flame
  4. 10. Every last one, with none left out
  5. 11. A hot drink made from leaves
  6. 12. To stop for a moment and then carry on
  7. 14. The male bird that crows at dawn
  8. 16. So similar you can hardly tell them apart
  9. 17. The higher of the two
  10. 18. Knotted mesh for catching fish
  11. 19. Much loved, or the word a letter begins with
  12. 20. Bands of leather that hold things on
  13. 23. Painful when touched
  14. 26. A tall plant with a trunk and branches
  15. 27. A sharp knock at the door
  16. 30. Came first, yesterday
  17. 31. Rested on a chair, yesterday
  18. 32. Grows older year by year
  19. 34. Meshes that catch fish or stop balls
  20. 36. The subjects you talk or write about
  21. 38. The one over there
  22. 42. Somebody paid to play a sport
  23. 43. The good feeling of having done well
  24. 44. A flat piece of paper
  25. 46. Things made for fighting
  26. 48. The hard points on the head of a bull
  27. 49. A female chicken that lays eggs
  28. 50. The short sharp sound of a balloon bursting
  29. 51. The opposite of no
  30. 52. Having lasted a great many years
  31. 53. To make an effort

Down

  1. 1. Fighting between two countries
  2. 2. Out loud, so that everyone can hear
  3. 3. Ground that runs downhill
  4. 4. River animals that swim on their backs
  5. 5. A wild forest animal, the male with antlers
  6. 6. What you hear with
  7. 7. String instruments played with the fingers
  8. 8. To put a question to somebody
  9. 9. To take in with your eyes
  10. 12. To breathe hard after running
  11. 13. Watchful and ready for anything
  12. 15. A place people go to bathe and relax
  13. 20. Posted or dispatched, yesterday
  14. 21. A small round green vegetable
  15. 22. A group of things that belong together
  16. 24. Has as personal property
  17. 25. Fish eggs
  18. 27. A long-tailed rodent bigger than a mouse
  19. 28. In the past, counting back from now
  20. 29. Crunchy vegetables, red, green or yellow
  21. 33. The wailing warning on an ambulance
  22. 35. A single thread or hair
  23. 37. Small folding beds
  24. 39. The joint where your leg meets your body
  25. 40. To take a child or a pet into the family for good
  26. 41. The highest ordinary singing voice for a man
  27. 43. To take the skin off a fruit
  28. 44. Uneasy about meeting new people
  29. 45. A garden tool for breaking up the soil
  30. 46. Which person
  31. 47. Somebody who gathers secrets for a country

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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