Cryptic crossword

Lee Teperman Charteris, Que.

Can J Rural Med 1996; 1 (2): 93

Clues

Across

1. Healthy, though everything in Quebec must be considered (4-7-3)
10. Weakness I intend to turn into self-help group (7)
11. Body of people contracting polio with indication of Tourette syndrome (7)
12. The drugs a doctor gives children (9)
13. Prognosticator who is rejected by Liberal (5)
14. Denote changes in knowledge base? (4,2)
15. Type of pill for one man given lots of shots (8)
18. Cure for the common cool carried by the medium cool (8)
20. Chief of three elements found in water (6)
23. Firm parent's profound nods? (5)
25. Blood factor in sheep contained in drink (5,4)
26. Publishing that is followed by litigation (7)
27. "Just beat us" to one badly beaten (4,3)
28. Stopper in the hand equal to obstetrics in the bushes? (9,5)

Down

2. Rescission, to use rare forms (7)
3. Itchy palm belies this body system (9)
4. Doctor with her bottled drink (6)
5. Outspend wildly on things not billed (8)
6. Hospital problems answered by upgrades (5)
7. Time of havoc, to be really obvious (7)
8. Happy to have had the last laugh? (7,2,5)
9. Grace MD in China deployed as a tool of the Industrial Revolution (7,7)
16. Cultivated roses or PC hardware! (9)
17. Hormone representing no danger (8)
19. Medical examiners in First Nation territory (7)
21. Wind that finds small crack to loves' armour (7)
22. Organ to play on, say, a bender (6)
24. Hang needed to play golf? (5)

© 1996 Lee Teperman

Answers to the cryptic crossword appear on page 95.

For instructions on how to tackle a cryptic crossword, please see the first issue of CJRM (1996;1:34­5) or correspond with Lee Teperman, RR 5, Shawville QC J0X 2Y0; email bullhits@infonet.ca.

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