Premium CROSSWORD PUZZLES Volume forty-ninePremium CROSSWORD PUZZLES Volume forty-nine How to play Our great selection of straight crosswords has a mixture of word-definition and general knowledge clues. 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mosquito (4) Single thread (6) Catholic service (4) Officially ban (4) Commercials (3)€ dYOMSSOUD ACROSS 7 8 9 10 n 12 14 15 18 20 21 Kitchen rack (7) Compete eagerly (3) Honour highly (5) Palpitate (5) Claim damages (3) Golf standard (3) Hump, haul (3) Below, beneath (5) Fine coffee (5) Wall-climbing plant (3) Educational institution (7) DOWN Border, rim (4) Barbaric (6) Top of the foot (6) Horse's pace (4) On any occasion (4) Beverage sachet (3,3) Film factory (6) Make a low noise (6) Liveried servant (6) Time units (4) ___ Stein, TV chef (4) Declare (4)b GYONSSOUSD ACROSS 1 8 9 10 12 14 15 17 18 20 Eggs found in ponds (9) External (5) Number in a trio (5) Defeated (6) Become limp (4) Thick string (4) Crude, vulgar (6) Run off to marry (5) Turning machine (5) Starting to trade again (9) DOWN Cart track (3) Grounds of a house (6) Firm meat spread (4) Brave fighter (7) Fired (questions) at (9) Covered with plumes (9) Be in favour (of) (7) Unpleasant sprite (6) Collect (ripe crops) 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Christian Scriptures (5) Not cooked (3) Dissimilar (7) Set (of products) (5) Finger or number (5) Specific value (5) Contemplates (5) Feel very hot (7) Liquid in a tree (3) Artist's trestle (5) Peruvian animal (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 12 13 14 15 17 DOWN Thin vegetation (5) Handle clumsily (3) Childhood (5) Facial hair (5) Beau ___, US actor (7) Choose (by vote) (5) Upper arm muscle (7) Meat spread (5) Praise fulsomely (5) Wall painting (5) Shade of brown (5) Health resort (3)8 GYOMSSOUO ACROSS 1 Spot, zit (6) 4 Quick haircut (4) 8 Henpeck (3) 9 Gift from Heaven (7) 10 Boat, vessel (5) 11 ___ wave, tsunami (5) 13 Family saying (5) 15 Woman's chest (5) 17 Army member (7) 19 Large rodent (3) 20 Poultry cage (4) 21 Tension, anxiety (6) DOWN Outbreak of fear (5) Nomad (7) Room illumination (5) US whiskey grain (3) Military award (5) Revise text (4) Merit (7) Melodious sounds (5) Do not include (4) Soft French cap (5) School subject (5) Lavatory (3)6 GYOMSSOUD ACROSS Loft room (5) Lingerie items (4) Shout singer (4) Vaulted (6) Sound a horn (4) Shouts (5) Forge worker (5) Send in the mail (4) Takes exams again (6) Deep anxiety (4) ____ Bana, actor (4) Sends out (5) Farmer's yield (4) Set upon, attack (6) Upper leg (5) Caveman's weapon (4) Least young (6) Retiring (3) Eats away at (6) Fails to hit (6) Possesses, owns (3) Rome's famous fountain (5) Become weary (4) Three players (4)OT GYOMSSOUD ACROSS Of the backbone (6) Hum like a bee (4) ____ Pop, old rocker (4) Price, cost (6) Kaley ___, actress (5) Bad tooth trouble (5) Actor’s prompt (3) Store secretly (5) Mature nit (5) Alyssa ___, Charmed actress (6) Stone granules (4) Grows older (4) Shop canopy (6) 2 3 4 5 6 10 12 15 17 18 DOWN Small dog (3) 1990s US boy band (1,4) Shoe-tie (4) Orthodontic device (5) Weaves in and out (7) Opening (knots) (7) Scottish exclamation (3) ____ Boy, TV trader (3) Drawbacks, difficulties (5) Vital body part (5) Meditative discipline (4) Pub, hotel (3)Tl GYOMSSOUO ACROSS 2 Duchess of Cambridge’s sister (5) 6 Apple's centre (4) 7 Mottled (4) 8 Parts of a sentence (5) 9 Turf lumps (4) 11 Takes food (4) 14 Sorting out again (11) 15 River in Thailand (4) 18 Style of motor racing (4) 20 Distorts (5) 21° Calf-length skirt (4) 22 Gas compressor (4) 23 Forward, cheeky (5) DOWN Martial-arts training hall (4) Church benches (4) Large travel bag (11) Church recess (4) Hire charge (4) Movie ogre (5) Bangladesh's capital (5) Resembling a bird (5) Soaked through (5) Early Liberal (4) Egyptian goddess (4) Observation game (1-3) ____ Lovato, singer (4)ACROSS 1 Woof (4) 3 Expel (odours) (4) 6 ___ Heath, 1970s PM (3) 8 Accra’s country (5) 9 ___ Els, golfer (5) 10 Gradual appearance (9) 12 Christmas show (9) 17 Wastrel (5) 18 ___ Astor, first woman MP (5) 19 Goal’s mesh (3) 20 Pretty, quaint (4) 21 Author of Das Kapital (4) cL GYOMSSOUD DOWN Marshes (4) Kingdom (5) Frenzied (5) Digits of the foot (4) HM Revenue & Customs form (3,6) Putting-off (9) Clairvoyance (inits)(3) Adam’s mate 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5 ___ Roberts, actress (5) 6 Jacob's biblical father (5) 8 Stage twosome (3) 9 Becomes threadbare (5) 11 Putin a nutshell (3,2) 12 No longer sleeping (5) 15 Relating to noise (5) 17 In the lead (5) 18 Site of a US battle (5) 20 Old Testament priest (3) 21 Early anaesthetic (5) 22 King with a golden touch (5) 1 2 3 4 5 7 10 13 14 16 18 19 DOWN Petition (4) Rolls (of banknotes) (4) News-stands (6) Non-experts (6) Soft McVitie’s biscuit-like snack (5,4) Extensive (9) Tibetan ox (3) ___ Dixon, singer (6) Seniors (6) Liquid mineral (3) Intends (4) Operatic heroine (4)ACROSS 1 ___ Street, kids’ show (6) 4 8 9 10 13 15 16 18 19 Male lead (4) Legal (5) Indentation, nick (5) Too burdened (9) Abruptly (9) Lengthwise (5) External boundary (5) Dreary (4) Mar (6) DOWN Of skin, yellowish (6) Latin ‘thus’ (3) Mineral science (10) Treaty (7) Darts line (4) Far from sufficient (10) Entangle (7) Aromatic evergreen shrub (6) Shaven-headed (4) Lingerie item (3) 91 GYOMSSOUDZT GUYOMSSOUD ACROSS 1 8 9 10 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(5) 9 Large-format film company (4) 10 Bury, inter (6) 13 __ Warder, Beefeater (6) 14 ___ Bridges, US actor (4) 16 Onno occasion (5) 18 Twelfth of a year (5) 19 Quick-tempered (6) 20 Branch of police (inits)(3) DOWN Making glassy (10) Quivering musical effect (7) Root cause of disease (4) Buddy, chum (6) Solid-fuel cooker (3) Touched-up (picture) (10) Of the great seas (7) Get into twos (4,2) American TV award (4) Dita__ Teese, model and dancer (3)€€ GYOMSSOUD ACROSS 1 Emaciated (6) 4 Ships’ diaries (4) 8 Treat fairly (2,7,2) 9 Apologetic (9) 13 Society entertainers (9) 15 Royal gems (5,6) 18 Becomes solid (4) 19 Appeal to God (6) DOWN 1 Campari mixer (4) 2 Wounds (7) 3 Nurses’ employer (inits)(3) 5 Crude mineral (3) 6 Marred (6) 7 Compares (6) 10 Bowling surfaces (6) 11 Angling waters (7) 12 Strikes (6) 14 Consumer or operator (4) 16 ___ for, choose (3) 17 Lend an ___, listen (3)FE GUOMSSOUD ACROSS Mountain range (6) Coloured paints (4) Dusting powder (4) Vouchers (6) Planting seeds (6) Trick, ploy (4) Do nothing (4) TV commercial (6) Satisfy (a thirst) (6) Govern (4) Eager (4) Soak, saturate (6) DOWN Adult butterfly (5) Rest on your back (7) Signed by hand (11) Acorn tree (3) Gives temporarily (5) Turn round (7) Fleshy stoned fruit (5) Old artefact (5) Convent sister (3)c€ GYOMSSOUD ACROSS Steffi____, tennis legend (4) Furrow, channel (6) Restricted widthwise (6) Tirade (4) ___ Degas, painter (5) Use too little (5) Underground drain (5) Drink greedily (5) Primary colour (4) Harm, hurt (6) Scattered around (6) Egg’s centre (4) DOWN ___ Dahl, author (5) Prohibited (7) Academic vestment (4) Belonging to us (3) Poison (5) Bad sport (7) Israeli port (5) Bucolic (5) Notice, placard (4) Devon river (3)ACROSS Muddled, cloudy (6) Floating platform (4) Feast of Christmas (4) Chickpea dip (6) Half-melted snow (5) Modify, amend (5) Issue, point (5) Decree, order (5) Made a movie of (6) Noted public school (4) Speak unclearly (4) Grieves, laments (6) DOWN 2 Commonplace (5) 3 Insect (3) 4 Roald __, author (4) 5 Hiked, roamed (7) 6 Water chute (5) 10 Glisten (7) 13 Style of bay window (5) 15 Invest as monarch (5) 16 Dutch cheese (4) 18 Long-legged bird (3) 9€ GUONMSSOUDLE GUYOMSSOUSD ACROSS DOWN 1. 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