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Crossword No 4

Friday, 13 June 2008 08:43 Martin Hills
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Eight of the answers must have the same prefix removed before they are entered in the grid. The clues relate to both the full and the shortened form, all of which are complete English words. Otherwise the usual rules apply: answers may be in English or French and all accents are ignored.

ACROSS

1 Round and about one’s eyes (6)
5 Suede not affected by this French cutter (8)
9 Roman’s dirt distributed to prevent flood (5,5)
10 Marks spoken of with an accent may lead to 25 (4)
11 Round trip for steer (8)
12 Aired but evaded (6)
13 Manufactured on the way back from Holland (4)
15 Rickety old organ reputedly cannot be turned off (4,4)
18 To reallocate can make ears sing! (8)
19 Feel the lack of a girl (4)
21 Position taken in situation (6)
23 Evasive expression (8)
25 Pour about what might blow (4)
26 Meeting not disturbed by flower (10)
27 French delicacy for which cart goes astray (8)
28 Limit the scope of a writer (6)

DOWN

2 Coat seen in Ascot tailor’s shop (5)
3 Being playful breaks sir’s ankle (9)
4 Kind of tyre laid back painter first (6)
5 A torch, appropriate for long journeys (10,5)
6 Unexciting occurrence, even with no books about (3-5)
7 Broken fingernails holding at last in France (5)
8 Steel cars crashed by French scoundrels (9)
14 Naughtily stole a run in the neighbourhood of France (9)
16 French remittance man? (9)
17 Silly Eric died with chewed gum in his drinking vessel (5,3)
20 Not this kind of a clue! (6)
22 Concept originated in Greece (5)
24 Where to press to indent – on the slate (2,3)

 

AMB 's different kind of puzzle

Crossword puzzles seem to be popular with English speakers in France to judge by the fact that many anglophone publications here include them.  Interestingly, the majority of these are of the cryptic, rather than definition, type.  We guess that there may be many readers of this website who would like this kind of puzzles and have asked Martin Hills, one of our regular contributors, who has pioneered his own variety of bilingual puzzle, first in Var Village Voice and currently in The Connexion to let us publish some of his in AMB Cote d'Azur.
 
Martin writes:  ‘Like many other crossword puzzle setters, I graduated through years of solving other people’s in the UK papers.  I have always enjoyed puzzles that are a bit different, like the many original forms that Araucaria has created for The Guardian.  The puzzles that appear here will all be cryptic and will all have answers in both English and French, because most of us can do with practising our French and developing our vocabulary.  The French words are to be found in a good dictionary.  On top of that, each time I plan to add another twist of one sort or another.  Nothing too difficult  –  the level will be roughly similar to that of  The Times or The Guardian  –  but enough to get the little grey cells to work.  Remember, this is the sort of mental exercise that is supposed to help ward off Alzheimer’s!’