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NBAS Cryptic Puzzle 2008
Mostly Archaeological
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Across
1. Will a folder rug do a dried fruit shell? (5)
4. Impressive creating sparks from flint (8)
8. Old Hebrew in Visa account (5)
9. Astute confused human sculpture (6)
10. Find metal mineral in the middle of Florence (3)
12. Fusing universe exploded to form prehistoric female statuettes (5,9)
15. A ring rearranged grass seeds wood fibre alignment (5)
16. Silty wind blown soil sounds like Superman's girlfriend (5)
20. Confusing dendrochronology leads to generating dirt (4,4,6)
23. Canine companion at front of Venetian leader (3)
24. Take the lake godess Bolbe up and backwards producing adobe buildings or communities in SW USA (6)
26. Proved to be in another place and in costal Ibiza (5)
27. Pre-Roman Italian civilisation gets confused and turns into recusants (8)
28. Bash stone about a bit to make musical brief records (5)
Down
1. British neolithic pottery from the rythm section (7)
2. Mix urine to create historic king of Rheged (5)
3. Muddled oracle's saddles found in Wadi Qumran caves (4,3,7)
4. Cut through central insect ionic order (7)
5. Meaning a representation of its own meaning (14)
6. Invitation to tender is the answer (1,1,1)
7. Sounds like a high grade metamorphic rock (6)
11. Refereing to the Egyption sun god (2)
13. Toughened keratin used to fix wood (4)
14. Wow! Flint and apple remains finishes arsenic ore (4)
17. Earning may be tangled, but it is fixed deeply within cereals (2,5)
18. Aussie gold miners at excavation site? (7)
19. Piece of metal bent out of shape petals is basic food (6)
21. In the middle of a midi Othello there's an utter fool (5)
22. Negative in Genoese (2)
25. Top of the grain in heart of hearts (3)
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