Sample Puzzle 7

Simon Huggins, Arctan Computer Ventures Ltd

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Normal

No. Across Size
1 A pie's become brown (5)
5 Two relations I give beachware (6)
8 Tea nice back when cut was more careful (4)
9 Healed injury a bind at the start for this beetle (6)
10 ... Or Such musical interludes, altogether (6)
11 Nymph not wet after Christ (5)
12 Make certain print unit free from doubts (6)
14 Not quite hardened - need to compensate (6)
16 Again, play the part reflexively (5)
18 Hook Quebec to pay in name (6,4)
20 The imp's playing low key (4)
21 TESSA is a valuable resource (5)
22 Almost a locket, but too fussy about detail (6)
24 Caresses Katy Rose (6)
25 Particularly cheesy (5)
28 Ran ere to get closer (6)
29 Natal reprise? (6)
30 Foxy socket filler less fifty (3)
31 Sam's weight (4)
32 Yelp! Short advertisement sportingly took the shot (6)
33 Ran so strangely to see so deeply (5)
No. Down Size
1 Snarled around a reprehensible lie (7)
2 Hitch a lift on a porker? (9)
3 The 'Date Cone' story (8)
4 How to get rid of bill (3,3)
5 Low-voiced alien life-form begets a dog! (6)
6 A thousand sleeps shortly acknowledges you carry all (9)
7 I'm blue without soaking-up fifty of you! (5)
13 Reset PC to make it feel worthy (7)
15 Use 18? Depends, without Ed (5)
17 Hi! Drop coy arrangement - it's too corny! (9)
19 Toss agar, sowing wildly (3,5)
22 Pine end? No, I wrote. (6)
23 For plan view of Lear, initially add some Artificial Intelligence (6)
24 Papyrus has no parent, but can liquify sugar (5)
26 Trembling tree in Colarado? (5)
27 For example, ear avidly changes (5)

Hints

No. Across
1 Anagram
5 Two - relations (think Scottish) - I
8 Backwards part of words gives "more careful"
9 Healed Injury - Add A and start of Bind to give a beetle
10 Anagram OR SUCH - A musical interlude, or sung altogether.
11 Type of nymph - not wet + After Christ
12 Make certain = Print Unit + Free from Doubts
14 Another word for hardened - not quite there. Think financial term.
16 Do some thing reflexively = Again + Play Part
18 Anagram. Method of payment using name.
20 Name of imp - sounds like 'playing'?
21 Anagram - something valuable
22 Something like a locket with a letter missing, meaning someone who goes into too much detail
24 Anagram, but don't take too literally to mean 'caress'
25 How do you make cheese into particles?
28 Anagram meaning closer
29 What does natal refer to? What if it happens again?
30 Name for a fox: What goes in a socket, take roman fifty from this to give answer
31 Anagram meaning weight
32 Anagram of 2 words - Abbreviation of one word to give meaning for 'took the shot'
33 Anagram of two words for method of seeing in deep place
No. Down
1 Anagram of a reprehensible lie
2 What's a porker? And how does the relate on getting a lift? Where would you sit?
3 Anagram giving another word for a [personal] story
4 How to finish off or get rid of bill
5 Singer with low voice, together with alien life form gives a type of dog
6 Letter for thousand, word for sleeps, abbreviation of acknowledges giving a type of carry-all
7 Take two words and take away roman numeral to give word for 'soaking up'
13 How do you make something feel worthy? Anagram of 2 words
15 What is 18 across for? Remove word from another and rearrange to give answer
17 Anagram of three words - involving something that may be corny
19 Two-word anagram for a wild form of something you'd sow
22 Anagram with missing letter to mean 'wrote'
23 Another name for 'plan' view - Add a word to an abbreviation and rearrange
24 Take a word for parent from PAPYRUS to give a form of liquified sugar
26 Tree known for its trembling leaves, also name of town in Colorado
27 Latin For Example + EAR to give avid

Explanations

No. Across
1 Anagram of A PIE'S is SEPIA, a shade of brown
5 Two is BI, relations are KIN, add I gives BIKINI, which is clothes worn on a beach
8 "TEA N"ice [cut] backwards gives "NEAT", which the cut would be if it was done with more care!
9 Healed Injury - SCAR - A - First letter of Bind - B - gives SCARAB, a type of beetle.
10 Anagram of OR SUCH is CHORUS - A passage between main verses, or group of people singing together
11 Type of nymph is a DRYAD - Not Wet = DRY, After Christ (Anno Domini) = AD => DRYAD
12 Print Unit is EN. Free from doubts is SURE. Together makes ENSURE
14 Not quite hardened - OFF - SET (pun), so give compensation (OFFSET)
16 Again = RE, Play the part = ACT, Reflexive action - REACT
18 Anagram of HOOK QUEBEC is CHEQUE BOOK. Pay cheques in name - each cheque has name on, and have to sign name.
20 LOKI is the name of an imp. 'Playing' means 'sounds like'
21 Anagram of TESSA is ASSET, a valuable resource
22 PENDANT - like a locket, remove N (almost) to give PEDANT, someone who goes into excruciating detail
24 Katy = KT + ROSE, Jumble up (caress) to make STROKE, another word for CARESS!
25 GRATE to make cheese into particles (smaller parts). Bit of a cheesy clue, that
28 Anagram of RAN ERE is NEARER - Do this to get closer (nearer)
29 Reprise means 'do again', Natal refers to being born. Thus, REBORN is the answer!
30 PUG is another name for a fox. Socket filler is a PLUG, take Roman numeral for fifty (L) to give PUG
31 Anagram of SAM'S is MASS, another word for WEIGHT.
32 Anagram of YELP + Short Advertisement (AD) = PLAYED. If you took a shot in sport, you PLAYED it
33 Anagram of RAN SO is SONAR (strangely means rearrange), a method of seeing into deep waters
No. Down
1 Rearrange (arround) SNARLED to give SLANDER, a reprehensible lie
2 PIGGYBACK - Porker is a PIG (or PIGGY) and you'd hitch a lift on it's back, I guess
3 Anagram of DATE CONE is ANECDOTE, a personal 'snippet of life' style story
4 To clear your debts from a bill, you pay-off the bill. Also, you pay somebody off to get rid of them.
5 Low-voiced = BASS, alien life form = ET, gives (begets_ BASSET, a type of dog
6 KNAPSACKS: A thousand (K) sleeps (NAPS) shortly=abbreviated acknowledges (ACKS) gives KNAPSACKS, a type of carry-all
7 IM BLUE without roman 50 (L) gives IMBUE, sort-of meaning 'soaking up'
13 Anagram of RESET PC is RESPECT - To make something feel worthy, you must respect it
15 Use 18 Across (CHEQUEBOOK) for SPENDing. Take word DEPENDS, remove ED, and rearrange letters to give SPEND
17 Anagram of HI DROP COY is CHIROPODY when arranged - Often dealing with corns. Ouch.
19 Anagram of TOSS AGAR is OAT GRASS - OATS are something that are traditionally sow wildly!
22 Anagram of PINE END with no I gives PENNED, meaning 'wrote'
23 'Plan' view is 'Aerial' view. Take word LEAR, add initial of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to give AERIAL
24 Take PA (a parent) from PAPYRUS, and rearrange to become SYRUP, a liquid form of sugar
26 ASPEN is a tree known for its trembling leaves. Also a town in Colorado, USA.
27 For example - EG, plus EAR gives EAGER - avid - changes, means rearrange letters

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