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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 42 - Spring 2004
Rocksword Puzzle No. 11

 
Clues across

1. Chops entry into large crystal (10 letters)
6. Exclamation (2)
7. Sluice tarn into Lake District (10)
11. Que sera, sera over the ages (4)
12. Craters I turn over for odd blocks (8)
15. Soap over senior citizens (4)
16. One Italian (3)
17. Short P.M. (3)
19. Occurrence in seven times (5)
20. Ring ran to a sum of money (5)
21. Use a try over river mouth (7)

Clues down

1. Lower part of the Cenozoic (10)
2. Tramp over scene of prominent cliff line (10)
3. About trice in a yellow quartz mineral (7)
4. He is on a line to inherit from father (3)
5. The tool Iíd even put up for surveying (10)
8. As a bed, it can be bottom, fore or top (3)
9. Initially the Royal Automobile Club (3)
10. In this, sue for topic (5)
13. Ran into sun god (2)
14. In like manner (2)
18. To a great extent (4)
20. Geo. Rex (2)
 
This is Angelaís eleventh Rocksword puzzle, and there are some great geological clues here. To maintain the geological theme, I wondered whether to suggest that 15 across refer to 'old fossils', but decided that Angela's 'senior citizens' is a more tactful alternative.

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