Crossword 8

Six seven-letter answers among the sixty-two clues — LEISURE, ENGINES, ESSENCE, TERRORS, ELEGANT and REVERSE. The long ones give this grid its shape and the thirty-one three-letter answers give it its speed.

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1R2A3T4A5S6H7B8O9Y10ADO11P12T13LEI14SURE15MONEY16ENGINES17REAP18SHE19ESSE20N21CE22G23L24U25E26SIR27EASY28S29I30T31BA32T33BEE34ACE35S36TA37B38TENT39TERR40O41R42S43A44TE45EVIL46E47L48EGAN49T50WADE51S52REVERSE53SLEEK54AGE55SEA56SPY

What is on this sheet

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

Across

  1. 1. A long-tailed rodent bigger than a mouse
  2. 4. The grey powder left after a fire
  3. 7. A young male child
  4. 10. To take a child or a pet into the family for good
  5. 13. Time when there is nothing you must do
  6. 15. The coins and notes you pay with
  7. 16. The parts that make vehicles move
  8. 17. To cut and gather in a crop
  9. 18. That girl or woman
  10. 19. The most important part of a thing
  11. 22. The sticky stuff that holds paper together
  12. 26. How you politely address a man you do not know
  13. 27. Not hard to do at all
  14. 28. To rest on a chair
  15. 31. A flying animal of the night
  16. 33. A striped insect that makes honey
  17. 34. The cards that beat the kings
  18. 36. A small flap you pull to open a carton
  19. 38. The cloth shelter you sleep in when camping
  20. 39. Very great fears
  21. 43. Had a meal, yesterday
  22. 45. Deeply wicked
  23. 46. Graceful and beautifully simple
  24. 50. Walks through shallow water
  25. 52. To go backwards
  26. 53. Smooth, shiny and neat
  27. 54. How many years old somebody is
  28. 55. The salt water that covers most of the world
  29. 56. Somebody who gathers secrets for a country

Down

  1. 1. A male sheep
  2. 2. To love someone very much indeed
  3. 3. Shades of one colour
  4. 4. A drink brewed from malt and hops
  5. 5. Good judgement of what to do
  6. 6. A long way up
  7. 7. A small round bread roll
  8. 8. Rock with metal hidden inside it
  9. 9. The opposite of no
  10. 11. Small green vegetables that grow in a pod
  11. 12. Kinds or sorts of a thing
  12. 14. The surrounding of a town by an army
  13. 20. The writing point of a fountain pen
  14. 21. A wooden box for carrying fruit
  15. 23. A room full of equipment for experiments
  16. 24. To put something to work
  17. 25. What you see with
  18. 28. Rested on a chair, yesterday
  19. 29. Water frozen hard
  20. 30. The number after nine
  21. 32. Black sticky stuff spread on roads
  22. 35. The raised floor that actors perform on
  23. 37. Makes tea by pouring hot water on the leaves
  24. 39. Nervous and unable to relax
  25. 40. Shaped like an egg
  26. 41. Travels along on a horse or a bike
  27. 42. To rest with your eyes closed all night
  28. 44. Covers a road with black sticky stuff
  29. 46. A long stretch of history with a name of its own
  30. 47. The limb you stand on
  31. 48. The day just before a big holiday
  32. 49. A hot drink made from leaves
  33. 51. What is above you out of doors

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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