The NI Crossword
No. 15 by Axe
In the cryptic puzzle, 16 Across is not clued - it is defined in other clues which appertain to it. All other clues are normal.
CRYPTIC
Across
1 Catches edge of avalanche (8)
6 Get through to the straight stretch of
river (5)
10 Asian has secure backing about troubled Tao
interior (7)
11,16 Does it show relief when 22 covers up 11s? (7,4)
12 Approximately four about to head for the island
(5)
13,16 Part of Wagnerian libretto set on the Western Front? (9,4)
14 In I get – terribly nervier about the river
bank (8)
20,16 Entailed turning at 180 degrees (4,4)
21 The last word in a Marines model weapon (8)
24 Edge of a dangerous situation (9)
25 Old English headwear needs to be back-to-front to
confront lake in the Sierras (5)
27 Structure US ran is formerly Soviet (7)
28,16 Sages – unknown Bible pedigree – in France (7,4)
29 American in Shia article missing the result of Japanese
angling (5)
30 A good man in between two German ones? (8)
Down
2 Spartan support for a flower of France (5)
3 Latin who appears in raid bungle makes the
cocktail (8)
4 1's without effrontery – close to understanding
Finisterre (5,3)
5,16 They dispute over the Latin and settle on figure (6,4)
6 Discharge of water will disappear, it looks
like (6)
7 Start in Lincoln for indigene (9)
8 He sat over part of 9 as ruler (5)
9 Lords usher boycott on staff (5,3)
15 These women are dedicated to finding oriental vessel
among disorganized franchisers (9)
17 Petition appeal? (8)
18 Milton Keynes it's not, in theory! (8)
19 Take GATT agreement for Swedish-Danish water (8)
22,16 It shows the effect of sunbathing – this mark on the atoll
(6,4)
23 Muslim spirit from a bottle (6)
24 Has quarters on the Seine (5)
26 Row around in welcome Indian style (5)
QUICK
Across
1 An effect of erosion or seismic activity (8)
6 Extend (5)
10 Citizen of part of former French Indo-China (7)
11 Landform, or graphic depicting it (7)
12 Ionian island (5)
13 Opera – a constituent part of the Ring Cycle (9)
14 Fluvial (8)
16 Occupation or speciality (4)
20 Tree, Phoenix dactylifera, native to North Africa
(4)
21 Total means of making war; defensive equipment (8)
24 Vertical rockface (9)
25 Resort lake on Nevada-California border (5)
27 Major Slavonic language said to have been transcribed
by St Cyril in the ninth Century AD (7)
28 French Minister of War, 1926-32 (7)
29 Dish of rice and fish in a vinegar sauce (5)
30 Physicist, born Ulm, Germany, who became successively
a Swiss, then an American, citizen.
Down
2 River of the Pyrenees and the French Basque
country (5)
3 Rum and lime-juice cocktail named after a town
in Cuba (8)
4 In Britain, the antipodal equivalent of John
O'Groats (5,3)
5 Fence or blockade (6)
6 Percentage of rainfall not lost to evaporation
or groundwater (6)
7 Autochthon; warragal (9)
8 Antipas or Agrippa? (5)
9 He summons the House of Commons at the opening
of the British Parliament (5,3)
15 Female adherents or worshippers (9)
17 Plea or invocation (8)
18 Economist – exponent of monetarism (8)
19 One of the straits separating the North and Baltic
Seas – literally 'the cat's throat' (8)
22 Island giving name to female clothing, supposed to have
a nuclear explosive effect on men! (6)
23 Spirit of Muslim theology and folklore (6)
24 Roman Lutetia, capital of King Clovis, c 508 AD (5)
26 Language estimated to be spoken by 330 million people
(5)
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