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Crossword #488

Crossword #488: a hand-curated English crossword with 32 clues on a 9 × 9 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 9 × 9

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Read the clues below, then open the interactive grid to enter your answers. Across and Down answers share letters where they cross. Check, Hint and Reveal are available in the game when you need help.

Across

  1. Leather leg coverings worn by cowboys (5)
  2. Remained in a seated position; past of sit (3)
  3. Proportional relationship between numbers (5)
  4. Fasten with a knot (3)
  5. Every other one; or a stand-in (9)
  6. Spoil or damage (3)
  7. A very small amount; also a small child (3)
  8. Thick flat piece of stone (4)
  9. Finest of all (4)
  10. Dishonorable man (3)
  11. Old unit of electrical conductance (3)
  12. Crude oil pumped from the ground (9)
  13. Form of the verb 'to be' (3)
  14. Thick or slow-witted (5)
  15. Father, informally (3)
  16. Solemn sworn promises (5)

Down

  1. Studies frantically before a test (5)
  2. Permitted under Islamic dietary law (5)
  3. Drew in (9)
  4. Pastry-crusted baked dish (3)
  5. Arrange by type (4)
  6. Formal declaration, or a monthly bank summary (9)
  7. Small island in a river (3)
  8. Peg that supports a golf ball (3)
  9. Person of high rank, in British slang (3)
  10. Place serving alcoholic drinks (3)
  11. Tell to be quiet (5)
  12. Large, weighty books (5)
  13. Extinct flightless bird (4)
  14. Lily leaf floating on a pond (3)
  15. A distinct period of history or geological time (3)
  16. Grassy meadow (3)

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