Crossword Puzzler

      Here's a British-styled brain tickler

   that's guaranteed to keep you guessing

a long time! Answers in the next JW...

 

By Mike Keith, Hightstown, NJ

 

This is a British-style juggling crossword puzzle. British puzzles are characterized by having imaginative, sometimes obscure definitions for the words.

 

Here are a few hints for solving these puzzles. First, each definition contains both a direct and a tricky definition for the word. There are many types of tricky definitions:

Anagrams - the answer is an anagram of part of the definition.

Hidden words - the answer is hidden in the definition.

Puns

Double definitions - two disparate definitions for the word combined into one.

Typographical tricks - using "tea" to stand for the letter T, .. a hole "to mean the letter "O" "back" to mean "write backwards," etc.

 

Hidden words and anagrams may be split across words or even across sentences. Sample definition: HARSH LIPS BEFORE TEA YIELDS BREAK-UP. Here, "harsh" indicates an anagram of the following word, "lips". Putting an anagram of 'lips" before"T" yields the answer, SPLIT (direct clue: break-up).

 

Most of the words in this puzzle are related to juggling. We'll print the answers in the next issue of JUGGLERS WORLD.

Across

1 Red wine jug? Dan says it's tops! (6,1,6)

8 Final outdoor summer show? (4,3)

9 An inner greed is here ­ don't juggle. (7)

12 Fashionable rehearsal. (4)

14 On voting, a Soviet juggler places high. (7)

18 He's always last. (3)

17 A bit. (2)

19 Preposition. (2)

20 Fire mixed-up animal. (3)

22 Errs while juggling on ice. (5,2)

23 On trains. he encounters them. (4)

24 Dog nips its owner for juggling food dish! (5.2)

27 Hint to apple juggler?(3,4)

29 Clean, difficult trick. (3,4,6)

 

Down

1 Managing books with lots of zeroes? (6,5)

2 Tricked-up easily. (4)

3 Napoleon reached the joint. (4)

4 A fit steer, I hear. (4)

5 Ruse found in policy. (6)

6 Juggled on Tonga. (3)