18 Answer to Crossword No. 104 from last issue Answer to Cryptic Xword No. 104 from last issue Answer to Sudoku No. 104 from last issue CRYPTIC 105 Answer next issue TO ENTER SEND YOUR COMPLETED CRYPTIC CROSSWORD TO: “Over 50s Cryptic Crossword Competition” PO Box 3302, Burleigh Town City Q. 4220 Write your name and address on the back of an envelope. First correct entry drawn will win a $50 WISH Card. Entries close 29.02.2024. Winner notified by mail. (Can be used at Woolworths Supermarkets, selected Ampol Woolworths, Big W, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Cellarmasters) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ACROSS 1. Does the Scottish Bishop cook on this? (6) 7. The governing bodies wrote some of the book. (8) 8. Walk a little and inside find a base. (6) 9. Stepping out and biking on the road. (8) 10. Spikes caused by sirens on the junction. (6) 11. It is non compulsory that I too plan moving. (8) 14. Loathing that dates sit rotting. (8) 18. Quietening a communist while divided. (6) 19. Flutters around just before 1000 households. (8) 21. The brood makes a mess. (6) 22. Crux of the crucial gem. (8) 23. Currency found on the road at the seashore. (6) DOWN 1. Rabbited on but quietly upset. (8) 2. The time agreed upon was inadequate. (6) 3. Over a hundred ships otherwise surrounded by the secret service clippers.(8) 4. A den for the French Inland Revenue. (4) 5. I circle behind the hunk in the workplace. (6) 6. The head dashed into the intelligence branch. (6) 12. Supports for the French behind the locks. (8) 13. Put a hole in and took off around the snake. (8) 15. I am a long time finding the reproductions. (6) 16. His set works for the large mining company. (6) 17. The substance was of importance. (6) 20. I mislead the legend. (4) 2 3 4 9 11 12 13 15 16 20 21 23 1 8 10 14 22 5 6 7 17 18 19 C R E D I T M S C R R O V E R T U R E E N T A I L A A E A G L I T E R A T E T H R O N G E I I N A B A N D O N S O T T T NASTI EST E O B I I N S T E P C O N T R A S T C P U L I U T O P I A U N H E E D E D R G D S S E N T R E E 9 11 13 19 24 26 5 1 8 10 12 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 25 27 2 3 4 6 7 M C C P C H E R I S H E D S H O R E H X S O R H M N I N T E S T I N E O P E R A R R P C A N D N E R A S E E N D E A R I N G M N E A A S U N D E R D E R A N G E M E E X S A B O T A G E S V I S I T H R A L I E H R E R E C T I N T E R C E D E R L L T D O S B M R E L A Y E N U M E R A T E Y A T D 6 1 3 2 7 9 5 8 4 5 7 2 8 3 4 1 9 6 9 4 8 5 6 1 2 7 3 7 8 6 9 5 3 4 1 2 4 9 5 6 1 2 7 3 8 3 2 1 4 8 7 6 5 9 8 3 4 1 2 5 9 6 7 1 6 9 7 4 8 3 2 5 2 5 7 3 6 9 8 4 1 An Englishman inherits a blue and green budgie from his brother’s estate. He brings it home, and after removing its cage cover, the bird begins to talk, “I’m a Gleisga Budgie an’ am hard as nails! It keeps repeating this mantra ad nauseam till it’s new owner is so fed up with hearing it, he goes out and buys a Kestrel and puts in the cage with the Budgie. Next morning the Kestrel’s dead, the Budgie swinging on it’s perch says, “I’m a Gleisga Budgie an’ am hard as nails!” The next day the man buys a Buzzard and puts it in the cage with the Budgie. Next morning the Buzzard’s dead, and the Budgie is swinging on its perch, and saying, “I’m a Gleisga Budgie an’ am hard as nails!” Next day the man buys a Golden Eagle and puts it in the cage with the Budgie, and sure enough, next morning the Golden Eagle is dead and the Budgie is sitting on its perch featherless. The man asks, “What happened here? and the Budgie replies, “a had to take my jacket off ta deal with that one!” Win a $50 WISH Card
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