Crossword 6

POTTERY and PARENTS run the longest, with SCORES, HOSTS and SPACE crossing them. Sixty-four clues, forty-six black squares and thirty-six three-letter answers — a grid you finish in short bursts rather than in one sitting.

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1T2A3P4L5O6W7P8A9Y10AGO11AWE12S13PACE14BET15BED16HOSTS17T18HE19ONTO20S21TEEL22S23CEDAR24EARN25P26ROS27WRY28EAR29P30E31G32SAME33LAVA34A35L36TER37S38CORES39REIN40ATE41TRAPS42S43ON44N45O46R47WORSE48AID49TRY50OWN51PLY52SEE

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
64
Black squares
46
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. To knock lightly with a finger
  2. 4. Close to the ground
  3. 7. To hand over money for something
  4. 10. In the past, counting back from now
  5. 11. The feeling of wonder at something huge
  6. 12. Room to move about in
  7. 14. Money staked on the result of a race
  8. 15. Where you sleep at night
  9. 16. The people who welcome guests into their home
  10. 17. It comes before almost every noun in a sentence
  11. 19. Moving to a position on top of
  12. 20. Braces oneself before something difficult
  13. 23. An evergreen tree with sweet-smelling wood
  14. 24. To be paid for the work you do
  15. 25. Players who make a living from their sport
  16. 27. Dryly amused
  17. 28. What you hear with
  18. 29. A wooden pin for hanging washing on a line
  19. 32. Not different in any way at all
  20. 33. Molten rock pouring out of a volcano
  21. 34. To change something a little
  22. 37. The numbers of points each side has
  23. 39. The strap used to steer a horse
  24. 40. Had a meal, yesterday
  25. 41. Devices set to catch animals
  26. 42. The male child of a family
  27. 44. And not either
  28. 47. Not as good as it was before
  29. 48. Help sent to people who need it
  30. 49. To make an effort
  31. 50. To have as your property
  32. 51. A layer of wood glued to another
  33. 52. To take in with your eyes

Down

  1. 1. A small flap you pull to open a carton
  2. 2. How many years old somebody is
  3. 3. Bowls and jugs shaped out of clay
  4. 4. The little tag that tells you what is inside
  5. 5. To have to pay somebody back
  6. 6. To marry
  7. 7. Italian food made from flour and water
  8. 8. Someone whose job is playing parts on stage
  9. 9. The opposite of no
  10. 12. What you put on your feet to go out
  11. 13. A small body of still water
  12. 18. A female chicken that lays eggs
  13. 20. To join cloth with needle and thread
  14. 21. Black sticky stuff spread on roads
  15. 22. A long pole with a sharp point
  16. 23. The middles of apples, left when you have finished
  17. 26. A male sheep
  18. 29. A mother and a father
  19. 30. The day just before a big holiday
  20. 31. Fuel that burns with a blue flame
  21. 32. Good judgement of what to do
  22. 33. A large amount
  23. 34. A thin shaft shot from a bow
  24. 35. To take in something you did not know before
  25. 36. Small pieces of useful advice
  26. 38. Sweets made mostly of sugar
  27. 41. The number after one
  28. 42. The sticky juice inside a tree
  29. 43. Slippery liquid used for cooking or for engines
  30. 45. Rock with metal hidden inside it
  31. 46. A dark grain used for heavy bread

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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