Are you ready to challenge your wits with today’s crossword puzzle? We’ve crafted a stimulating set of clues sure to test your vocabulary and lateral thinking skills. Grab a pen or open the app, and let’s get puzzling!
Puzzle Clues
Across
- 1. Crustacean-inspired dish from Lancashire – reshuffle ‘promptest dish’ for a hint (6,7 letters).
- 8. Australian slang for a companion (3 letters).
- 9. General public (3,6 letters).
- 10. To paginate a book; you do this to each page (8 letters).
- 11. Meat from a Holstein-Friesian (4 letters).
- 13. This professional stitches; think of a type of waterway too (6 letters).
- 14. A creator of cartoons or animations (6 letters).
- 16. A famous area in the heart of London (4 letters).
- 17. Imagine an aggressive split stick used for throwing—reorganise ‘ping over’ (8 letters).
- 20. An enthusiastic exclamation meaning ‘yes’—expressed in three parts (5-2-2 letters).
- 21. Informal farewell (3 letters).
- 22. A term for gases like carbon dioxide or methane (10,3 letters).
Down
- 1. Describes something bouncy, akin to how you might reserve a book or restaurant (3-2 letters).
- 2. A role within a service industry company—two words total (9,4 letters).
- 3. Of a higher calibre (8 letters).
- 4. Easily provoked or irritated (6 letters).
- 5. Uppermost part of a dwelling (4 letters).
- 6. The famous issue associated with the Y2K bug (10,3 letters).
- 7. Cooking method involving quick frying in hot oil—two words (4-3 letters).
- 12. The condition of being married to multiple partners simultaneously (8 letters).
- 13. A phrase that means to leave something as it stands—one word (7 letters).
- 15. Term for an architectural lookout point or pavilion (6 letters).
- 18. A lengthy strand or lock, often hair (5 letters).
- 19. To turn around a central point (4 letters).
The clues are set. Will you conquer the grid? Best of luck as you unravel each hint!
Reporting based on coverage first published by theguardian.com.