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Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine
CJRM Summer 2000 / été 2000

Cryptic Crossword

Lee Teperman

CJRM 2000;5(3):155.


Across
1.One who lies in a portable bed? (9)
6.Good morning leading to Intensive Care of a sexual nature (5)
9 & 10.Clinic is run the wrong way by tax-burdened country (7,7)
11.A loss more fitting for display area (9)
12.Tool, if very abstract, to clear a plane for flight (2-3)
13.Swaddling cloth still borne by the dead (7)
15.Your doctor should fall short? (7)
16.Hundred years in German and out (7)
19.Plot to go out with one daughter and live with another (7)
21.Appropriate roles for the physician (5)
22.Being cryptic with clue and so it's not made easy (9)
25.Positive response by tarts and the upwardly mobile (7)
26.Eluding targeted humour (7)
27.Fear that grips this spaceship (5)
28.They sing, I suspect, to be cleaner (9)
Down
1.Hole in the head of evil American (5)
2.Right united to gain strength as it is done in the country (7)
3.Three-way crippling disease not successfully treated by prunes (5)
4.Air bubble stuffed up man's snout (7)
5.Addict picked up medication, that is picked up where we left off (7)
6.Labour on organised big business (9)
7.Military guidance system's application causing mayhem (7)
8.Company-built home with general store completely stuffed (9)
13.Occult eye suspiciously cast upon blood product (9)
14.Prize fighter is actually swimmer (9)
17.Compass used to measure the hand and one in the bush (7)
18.Old Testament book found by small church written in German (7)
19.Investigating and bringing action against secret police! (7)
20.Organism responsible for, to a degree, cold and troubled ego (7)
23.Spoon and tune and valley talk (5)
24.Occupied time following counter-offensive (5)


Answers to this puzzle, Cryptic Crossword #17, are on page 160.

For instructions on how to tackle a Cryptic Crossword see the June 1996 issue of CJRM, which can be accessed through SRPC's Web site (www.srpc.ca) or CMA's site (www.cma.ca/cjrm), or contact Lee Teperman, Box 893, Shawville QC J0X 2Y0; tel/fax 819 647-3971; bullhits@infonet.ca

© 2000 Lee Teperman