Nine Letters 001

A nine-letter word can be formed using each of the letters below one time only. Can you work out what it is?

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CURSES!

Can you see why number eleven in our latest Gridless left us turning the air blue with profanities!? When you discover the answerline, a vertical word or phrase, you'll understand bleeping everything!

1. Undesirables sheriff tails onto a traffic island. (4-4)
2. Like a steady passage without a change of pitch despite wild monsoon out. (10)
3. Unscrew pew?! Loose, utterly without principles! (12)
4. Groovy music hater or trouncer of a previous best? (6-7)
5. A way to check student attendance? Room Orderly will give them a bell. (8)
6. The Spanish use a needle in this place or in some other place. (9)
7. Technologically up-to-the-minute theatre fast to improve. (5-2-3-3)
8. He needles you and hurts you but leaves you with a colourful impression. (9)
9. Guarantee peer group shelters North American Indians. (6)
10. Cooler umpire to set up times to start running. (12)
11. !@$#?!
12. Company fine and box office fine with what foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsay has written! (8)
13. The one who directed you to a specialist about a deficiency of rarer iron on the inside. (8)
14. Start dealing in devil's dirty laundry except don't get swindled! (7)
15. Sees boss upset and really worries. (8)

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Word Bank 005

All the answers are provided - you've just got to match them up. The answer to each of the fifteen clues below can be formed by pairing two words from the Word Bank. All of these bankwords will be used just one time each. Things are made slightly more tricky by clues and answers which are deliberately misleading.

1. Bickering
2. Once a Central Colorado gold-mining centre
3. Tabulae Rasae
4. Haemangioma Simplex
5. A condition that afflicts some sportspeople
6. Physical labour
7. Musical
8. It rings out
9. Submersible
10. Capital providers - and that's all!
11. Sport
12. Pugnacious opportunity
13. Drink
14. Exercised influence
15. Hilarious

CREEK TOE SPLITTING SQUASH TENNIS PRAY GREASE STRAWBERRY SWORDS MARK SLATES LEMON STRINGS BELL PULLED CRIPPLE MISSED DIVING PARTNERS FIGHTING SIDE TABLE HAIRS CROSSING TURF CALL SLEEPING CHANCE CLEAN ELBOW

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Cross-stitch 011

This month's Cross-stitch puzzle is a straightforward affair called "Novel Grovel". Enjoy.

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