collaborative crossword - ALVSMITH

collaborative crossword

12/3/2014

Here's a crossword grid that I have created. If you would like to suggest a clue for any of the answers, post it as a comment and I will try to incorporate it into the completed version, which will appear here.

David Kilmer link

12/3/2014 12:13:02 pm

For INERT: Motionless in hospital with extreme ailment.

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David Kilmer link

12/3/2014 12:18:24 pm

for INTERNALLY: Inside trainee and friend

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David Kilmer link

12/3/2014 12:23:57 pm

"Trainee and friend on the inside" is probably better

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Ashley Smith link

12/3/2014 12:31:09 pm

Thanks for those, David. They're great! INTERNALLY is especially clever.

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David Kilmer link

12/3/2014 12:40:58 pm

Thanks. I was cherry-picking ;). One more before I get back to the grind:

ELEGIAC: Left in turbulent ice age and expressing sorrow.

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Steve Harding

13/3/2014 09:02:12 am

For 'The Iron Curtain' how about: Drawn in 1945?

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David Kilmer

13/3/2014 01:54:03 pm

CATERWAUL - Discordant noise from stirred water in membrane.

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Ashley Smith

14/3/2014 11:32:46 am

Very nice - simple but effective!

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Max

16/3/2014 09:48:41 am

OTTOMANS - Flower perfume, ___'_ Best Friend

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anax

19/3/2014 02:37:33 am

SMUTTY: Dirty dog with extremely silky skin

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anax

19/3/2014 02:42:27 am

INDIA: You'll find hotel before this home help's turned up
Def refers to NATO alphabet. Wordplay is IN (home) + AID<

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Ashley Smith

19/3/2014 02:50:52 am

Very nice, anax. I like 'smutty' especially!

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Nirmal L

26/3/2014 02:31:18 am

EAGLE: Hound has head bitten off by bird.
((-B)EAGLE)

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Ashley Smith

26/3/2014 03:39:40 am

Nice one!

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Darren

26/3/2014 04:47:01 am

for adapt: In Canada, ptarmigans adjust to the environment (5)

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Ashley Smith

26/3/2014 06:32:06 am

Fabulous. Any mention of ptarmigans gets my vote!

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budtangerina

26/3/2014 09:06:15 am

PULSE: Pound turned up at a Westminster school (5)

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Nirmal L

27/3/2014 01:39:52 am

Diseases: Seasides are not good for illnesses.

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budtangerina

28/3/2014 04:38:24 am

OCCUR: Turn out a would-be gentleman - and anything but a gentleman (5)

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Ashley

28/3/2014 05:22:44 am

Very nice indeed!

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Nirmal

28/3/2014 09:53:19 am

SOLO: Return bone after a look alone.
It rhymes! :P

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Ashley

29/3/2014 02:52:21 am

Always like a nice rhyme!

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J.R

29/3/2014 10:21:38 am

EARDRUM - arrange a murder, you can't beat it.
SOLO - lonely at the bottom.

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Ashley

29/3/2014 12:03:07 pm

Nicely done, JR

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Wayne Jones

15/4/2014 08:29:08 am

21A: Churchill's figure of speech in article: "Running short in Persia, one is surrounded" (3,4,7)

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Wayne Jones

16/4/2014 10:58:27 am

17D: Circle the metropolis after terror strikes, a savage presence (8)

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Wayne Jones

16/4/2014 11:01:17 am

3D: Gold, right? Gold! Like lights in the sky (7)

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Ashley link

17/4/2014 02:14:46 am

Great clues, Wayne. I'll put the next grid on today so that you can have a go at that...

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Ashley Smith is Head of Poetry at St John's College School, Cambridge. He has been teaching English and French since 2000 and was awarded the title of Teacher Trailblazer for 2011 by The Poetry Society. He lives in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, with his two cats, Muppet and Moussa Koussa.

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