Christmas crossword
note: there are no clues 10,15 or 20. 2 and 16 are US spellings
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7. Varied opinion is lacking ion particle (4) 11. No electric device hides French Christmas (4) 12. Equipotentials between two positive charges forms a disturbed sad LED (6) 13. Serendipity when shuffling UCL gets Kelvin. (4) 16. Dali Lama mixes without artificial intelligence and left wavelength. (4) 17. Ten Million becomes much fewer kg when shaken up. (10) 22. Armour oddly conceals non IB nuclear unit. (3) 23. Digital lumberjack records measurement. (10) 25. Neat Roger gets messed up to become producer of electricity, (9) 27. It’s an essential element of a graph but the wrong place to drink. (8) 31. After sales initially charge. (2) 32. Any longer and you’d be on the radio. (2) 33. Chris’ jacket is a backward rectangular rod. (3) 34. Stoop without glasses gives the condition for Avogadro to be true. (3) 36. Are cattlemen ripely abused for quark? (10,8) | 1. Sounds like there isn’t a shelf but you get it from school. (9) 2. About 600 will shine light on the situation. (10) 3. Angle is found from the tangent. (5) 4. Nitrogen oxygen and sulphur are part of the course. (3) 5. Two would get across a circle. (5) 6. 577 to 597 2 (6) 8. Don’t come to class if your pill loses parking. (3) 9. The sound of Italian cars bounce back because the …….. (7,6) 14. Flemings first gives way to the field. (6) 18. if Normal reaction is increased friction becomes beer around it. (6) 19. Sharpen it around to cause the sun to rise. (5,4) 21. An initial change to hairdresser’s tool could be atomic. (4) 24. Try open disorder. (7) 25. Steal energy resistance and time to give Hooke maybe. (6) 28. Captain Hook loses constant to give speed of change with time. (4) 29. Dorm mate has large volume. (5) 30. Small particle changes end to North giving 1000 17. (1,3) 32. Sounds like you reach a peak in widescreen cinema. (4) |
This is a cryptic crossword, the clues are not direct, here is some information as to how they work:
- Each clue has a cryptic part and a definition. "modern mass gives English physicist" would be Newton. "modern mass" is the cryptic part (new ton), "English physicist" defines the answer.
- A number of clues are anagrams. "g meant arrangement has North and South" is an anagram of magnet. Look out for nonsensical word combinations and words like arrange or mix.
- There are some hidden words. "Damp rot only hides positive particle" is proton. Look for words like hidden.
Here is a pdf version.
And here is an online version, same clues but different grid.
And the solution (don't cheat)
