Friday, April 27, 2007

Cryptic: 10x5

A new crossword. I should really just email it directly to Eric.
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Across

1. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy novels begun but not finished - what a struggle! (7,3)
5. Working class male prostitute = "Rear Thug"? Do badly. (5,5)
6. People who descend on Santa's knee? (10)

Down

1. Lyric about a boy. (5)
2. A bump on the slopes for Carnegie or Murdoch. (5)
3. Ron backed commercial US/Canadian missile defense system. (5)
4. Carrier, he assumes, contains birds. (5)

1 comment:

Pat said...

Eric made short work of this one.

ACROSS
1. Crimean War ("Crime And Punishment" and "War And Peace" both truncated)
5. Rough Trade (anagram of "rear thug do")
6. Laplanders

DOWN
1. Cyril (anagram of "lyric")
2. Mogul (two meanings)
3. NORAD ("Ron" backwards + "ad")
4. Rheas (hidden within "carrier he assumes")