Crosswords/2005/March/5

March 5, 2005

Quick crossword
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Across
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 * 1. Gathers (5)
 * 8. Trumpet-like instrument (6)
 * 9. Device to untangle and neaten hair (9)
 * 12. Pariah (7)
 * 13. Bird twitter (5)
 * 14. Sick (3)
 * 15. Garden device (3)
 * 16. Regular stop; train or bus boarding place (7)
 * 19. Device once called "the wireless" (5)
 * 22. Burn lightly (5)
 * 24. Flask (7)
 * 27. Greek letter (3)
 * 29. Cooking dish (3)
 * 30. Malice (5)
 * 31. Player piano (7)
 * 32. Place to pay one's fares for crossing bridge, road, etc. (9)
 * 34. Strong whisky (colloq.) (6)
 * 35. Response (5)
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Down
Answers next week.
 * 2. The importance of being (7)
 * 3. Good golf score (3)
 * 4. Learned person (7)
 * 5. Bubbly liquid (5)
 * 6. Flag (9)
 * 7. Small packet (6)
 * 10. Collective of workers (5)
 * 11. Navigate (5)
 * 17. Repetition of vowel sounds (9)
 * 18. Tavern (3)
 * 20. Noise (3)
 * 21. Whinge (5)
 * 23. Ability to feel others emotions (7)
 * 24. Narrow waterway (5)
 * 25. Fertile dirt (7)
 * 26. Body; unit (6)
 * 28. Adolescence (5)
 * 33. Falsehood (3)
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