Crossword Challenge: Answers to Right back at ya!
Alison Sampson
October 01
In Meanjin Vol 69:1, David Astle laid down the gauntlet—readers were asked to complete our seventy-year crossword challenge and then use the answers to create a literary response. Alison Sampson replied with a cryptic story of her own: new clues, same grid, different answers, published in Vol 69:3. Here are the answers:
turn off, please (7) – delight
interviews do not bury, lack directions to compete (3) – vie
chance to treat addiction (sounds like fourth poison) (5) – detox
handsome young man, back in, pop up (6) – Adonis
two members of SPUNC caught in confused lazy drive away (6) – dispel
swirl, horse lost direction (4) – eddy
German train shook two vowels from damaged bandage (3) – Zug
again turn on the jumbled barge (7) – relight
One who sailed in and out of weeks to the mostest (3) – Max
assistance, stolid, even though he’d lost his way (3) – aid
conserve or pickle (3) – jam
modernist printer’s measure floundering at sea (5) – Eames
tick, Cunningham, given rest (7) – spelled
lit mag is a stingy demon (7) – Meanjin
Saw, devoured outstanding (3,4) – too late
daunted, no, note a cryptic genius (4) – Azed
dictionary – adored, less 55 (3) – OED
set of implements, too, left above Christopher (7) – toolkit
This devil’s a tad cryptic (5,5) – David Astle
ponderous, nor very arch (4-6) – flat-footed
The effect of mother’s attempt at crossword-compiling on confused adolescent state (6,4) – enrage tyke
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