It’s Mini Cryptic #4 because Mini Cryptic #1, #2 and #3 appeared on my previous blog first. I’m a fan of cryptic crosswords and might do a post on them (like those sudoku a few months ago over on PZM’s blog).
Across
1 Time: Mistake ideology for political violence (9)
5 Dean sat not confused, explains in words (9)
7 Melinda Clarke’s TV show was sexy…then religion took over (9)
Down
1 Difficult situation without the first attribute (5)
2 Street taken from far away is still far away (5)
3 You’ve got some nerve, looking at me…. (5)
4 Within, within words (5)
5 It’s moldy. Do we have to? Yes. (5)
The answers appear under the fold.
A1 TERRORISM
A5 ANNOTATES
A7 THEOCRACY
D1 TRAIT
D2 RANGE
D3 OPTIC
D4 INTRA
D5 MUSTY
Nice, but there’s an extraneous ‘d’ in 5 across, no?
Which shows why I don’t do this for a living.
“He wouldn’t write ‘argh’, he’d just say it.”
– Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Also, there is no 5 across. There’s a 6 across.