Crossword 9

ANTLERS, GENERAL, ERRANDS and SPONSOR are the long answers, with DIVIDE and POLICY crossing. Sixty clues, and only twenty-eight of them are three letters: less of this grid falls out for free, and more has to be worked out from the letters you already have.

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1S2A3D4O5U6R7R8EADY9S10PINE11DIVIDE12POLIC13Y14OVEN15ROE16TOE17TART18S19ANT20LERS21SLY22P23ETS24ODD25OAR26O27PT28B29ED30R31ARE32T33W34O35GENE36RAL37T38HROW39EAT40ONE41EARL42TRI43POD44S45TACKS46DRUMS47HIRES48SET49YET

What is on this sheet

Grid
13 × 13
Clues
60
Black squares
43
Longest answer
7

Across

  1. 1. Feeling unhappy
  2. 4. Belonging to us
  3. 7. Prepared and waiting to start
  4. 9. The line of bones down your back
  5. 11. To split a thing into parts
  6. 12. A rule an organisation decides to follow
  7. 14. The hot box you bake a cake in
  8. 15. Fish eggs
  9. 16. One of the five at the end of your foot
  10. 17. Small open pies filled with jam
  11. 19. The branching horns a stag grows each year
  12. 21. Clever in a sneaky sort of way
  13. 22. Cats, dogs and hamsters, for example
  14. 24. Strange, or not divisible by two
  15. 25. What you row a boat with
  16. 26. To choose one thing over another
  17. 28. Where you sleep at night
  18. 30. Hardly ever found
  19. 32. The number after one
  20. 35. True in most cases, without going into detail
  21. 37. To send something through the air with your arm
  22. 39. To take food into your mouth
  23. 40. The first number of all
  24. 41. A British nobleman ranking below a marquess
  25. 42. A three-legged stand for a camera
  26. 44. Neat piles, one thing on top of another
  27. 46. Instruments you beat with sticks
  28. 47. Takes somebody on to do a job
  29. 48. A group of things that belong together
  30. 49. Up to now, and still not

Down

  1. 1. A holy person honoured by a church
  2. 2. To put numbers together to find the total
  3. 3. What you soak cloth in to change its colour
  4. 4. Slippery liquid used for cooking or for engines
  5. 5. Joined together for one purpose
  6. 6. To write down or capture for later
  7. 7. The one you are competing against
  8. 8. Each one, without exception
  9. 9. A company that pays to put its name on a team shirt
  10. 10. Somebody who writes verse
  11. 11. Small round marks joined in order to reveal a picture
  12. 13. The opposite of no
  13. 15. A long-tailed rodent bigger than a mouse
  14. 18. A place people go to bathe and relax
  15. 20. A large amount
  16. 23. Small jobs done out of the house
  17. 25. A poem written in praise of something
  18. 27. An animal kept at home for company
  19. 28. Hair grown on the chin
  20. 29. Whole, with nothing missing
  21. 31. A drink brewed from malt and hops
  22. 32. A faint mark left behind
  23. 33. Does a job for a living
  24. 34. Night birds with round staring eyes
  25. 35. To obtain or receive something
  26. 36. One space inside a building
  27. 38. The organ that pumps your blood
  28. 43. To place something somewhere
  29. 44. Uneasy about meeting new people
  30. 45. To fasten with a knot

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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