Puzzles

Concise Crossword 06/11/2020

7 Nov 2020 — 1 min read

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Across7 Latin man (4)
8 An act of resistance or rebellion (8)
9 Ineffective or incompetent(8)
10 The first man (4)
11 Ctrl + Z shortcut (4)
12 366 days (4,4)
14 Very popular plant (8)
16 Public swimming pool (4)
18 Capital of Norway (4)
20 Medicine dissolved in alcohol (8)
22 To pass on from one person to another (8)
23 A shabby or sleazy bar (4)

Down1 To be in charge of a country (6)
2 The confining of people (8)
3 Olympic tobogganing (4)
4 To unlawfully enter somewhere (8)
5 The largest continent (4)
6 Capital of Turkey (6)
12 Archaic psychological surgery (8)
13 Christmas season (8)
15 Ridiculous or wildly unreasonable (6)
17 To obtain something from (6)
19 Pig sound (4)
21 Musical symbol (4)

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