Crossword:

ACROSS

1 Able to run off and dim the sight 4 Extremely unpleasant but mostly legal 7 Hasten to a person who is an object of ridicule for gossip 9 Foretelling some material measure 1 0 In any long man-made fibre 1 2 In New Zealand first seen as this unusual apparition 1 3 Can Industrial Relations heads produce a rocky monument 1 5 Fills up some mastic final bits for a builder 1 7 Supplementing a ruler from the east 1 9 Not a word! Mother 2 1 Of an optical instrument being extremely small 22 Require it and why you’ve become so poor 23 Eulogise some of the next old-timers

DOWN

1 A company fellow becomes an executive perchance 2 In short, the quality of being the same 3 Retain movement in the eye 4 A Confederate general on the protected side 5 Defect from a bad service being called 6 I gather to call like this is to be considered rather sluggish 8 Big and long like an unused page 11 Happen to have an answer? 1 4 Liberate secure individuals 1 6 The entertainment director from 1100 I hear 1 8 Put in and taken out like provided information 20 The first of the month ends badly for Captain Ahab’s quarry, Dick

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

1 Smudge 4 Terrible 7 Rumour (coll) 9 Old cloth measure 1 0 Synthetic polyamide 1 2 Supernatural being (NZ) 1 3 Mound of stones 1 5 Speculation 1 7 Contriving to make a living 1 9 Mother 2 1 Minute 22 In want 23 Praise highly

1 A fellow engaged in commerce 2 Evenly balanced 3 Part of eye 4 To the sheltered side 5 A bad part 6 Sluggish 8 Empty 11 Happen 1 4 Save 1 6 Host 1 8 Contribution of information 20 Dick, whale saga

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