Crossword 7

The only grid here with nine-letter answers: ENGINEERS and RAINDROPS. Around them sit forty three-letter entries, more short answers than in any other puzzle of this set, plus PARROT, RESCUE, STRIPE and TATTOO.

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1A2C3E4S5H6E7S8O9D10ION11TEA12STAY13DIG14RAT15WERE16LI17MIT18SEE19SNAP20PAR21R22O23T24EYE25SIT26AWE27E28VE29FAT30INN31AIR32BET33T34ON35RES36CUE37ADD38S39HIT40STERN41S42EAL43LIT44OA45K46PEST47AGO48PIE49ALE50WHO51SLY

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
64
Black squares
48
Longest answer
9

Across

  1. 1. A playing card with a single mark on it
  2. 4. That girl or woman
  3. 7. A square of earth with grass growing on top
  4. 10. An atom carrying an electric charge
  5. 11. A hot drink made from leaves
  6. 12. To remain where you are
  7. 13. To make a hole in the ground with a spade
  8. 14. A long-tailed rodent bigger than a mouse
  9. 15. Used to be, said of more than one
  10. 16. The point beyond which you must not go
  11. 18. To take in with your eyes
  12. 19. To break with a sharp sound
  13. 20. A colourful bird that copies what you say
  14. 24. What you see with
  15. 25. To rest on a chair
  16. 26. The feeling of wonder at something huge
  17. 27. The day just before a big holiday
  18. 29. The greasy part of a piece of meat
  19. 30. A small country hotel with a bar
  20. 31. What you breathe, though you cannot see it
  21. 32. Money staked on the result of a race
  22. 33. A weight of a thousand kilograms
  23. 35. To save somebody from danger
  24. 37. Puts one amount together with another
  25. 39. To strike something hard
  26. 40. Strict and serious in manner
  27. 41. A sea animal that barks and claps
  28. 43. Set alight, or filled with light
  29. 44. A strong tree that grows acorns
  30. 46. An insect or animal that ruins the crops
  31. 47. In the past, counting back from now
  32. 48. A dish baked with pastry over the top
  33. 49. A drink brewed from malt and hops
  34. 50. Which person
  35. 51. Clever in a sneaky sort of way

Down

  1. 1. Help sent to people who need it
  2. 2. Loops of rope or wire wound round and round
  3. 3. The people who design bridges and machines
  4. 4. A band of colour across something
  5. 5. Warmth, or to make something hot
  6. 6. To take food into your mouth
  7. 7. To guide a car or a boat
  8. 8. What you row a boat with
  9. 9. What you soak cloth in to change its colour
  10. 12. What runs down your face when you work hard
  11. 17. Is allowed to
  12. 18. To send liquid out of the mouth
  13. 21. The small bits of water that fall in a shower
  14. 22. To have as your property
  15. 23. The number after nine
  16. 25. Rested on a chair, yesterday
  17. 27. What you hear with
  18. 28. To compete for a prize
  19. 29. What you stand on, two of them
  20. 32. Put together, brick by brick
  21. 33. A design inked into the skin
  22. 34. A poem written in praise of something
  23. 36. To run after somebody to catch them
  24. 38. A slow creature that carries its shell about
  25. 40. A long breath let out when you are tired
  26. 41. A place people go to bathe and relax
  27. 42. A long fish shaped like a snake
  28. 43. A rule that everybody has to follow
  29. 45. What you turn in a lock

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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