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14 THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FRIDAY MARCH 28 1997 PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT Today Sunday timetable The Sydney Morning Herald Yes Today Noon-lOpm Today Closed Today Most closed Today Closed Satuiday Sunday Saturday timetable Sunday timetable The Australian Financial Review No Saturday 5am-midnight Other days 10am-6pm Saturday Normal Saturday Open The Daily Telegraph Yes Sunday lOam-lOpm Sunday Most closed Sunday Most closed Monday Sunday timetable The Australian No Closed Monday Some open Monday Open Other days 10am-5pm Closed Open every day Sunday No deliveries and Monday Normal services 7050 for emergencies Today and Saturday Phone 9369 As usual Monday Holiday timetable (Bustrainferry Infoline: 131 500) Open every day 930am-9pm Open every day 930am-5pm HOLIDAY CROSSWORD QUIZ Closed Saturday 5am-midnight lOam-lOpm 5am-midnight Normal 23 24 25 26 27 28 52 53 59 85 92 1 99 jHpooHH mpi5 if J22 128 GIANT PUZZLE Easter 97 78 What girl is among the front-runners of Sydney emerituses? (3) 8 1 What Bishop of Bayeux 1 036-97) ruled England as regent when his half-brother William the Conqueror was away? (3) 82 One of Vincent Van deficiencies? (3) 85 What girl seems to be informative about the predominant key in which seventh symphony is composed? (3) 93 See 112-down 95 What is the surname of the Liverpool-born musician knighted in 1994 who has been among preeminent conductors since the early 1970s? (Portrait H) (6) 98 With a top score of 256 what West Indies batsman scored 28639 first-class runs (including 83 centuries)? He played eight games for Western Australia and two for Tasmania whom he coached in the 1 969-70 season (6) 100 What sort of showbiz could be expected of the six Iceman characters? (6) 103 If there were more than one on the Himalayan heights what alternative description might be given to them? (5) 105 What creations from Detroit (and elsewhere) appear wrong to USA? (5) 106 What is the surname of the Tasmanian senator who is a front-running activist among environmentalists? (5) 107 What state in north-eastern India lies mostly in the Brahmaputra valley beyond Bangladesh? Tea is its economic mainstay (5) 108 What are the turns taken by the various participants in table games like snakes and ladders ludo etc? (4) 109 a humiliating blunder such as gets us bottom? (4) 111 What are lilies with large leaves fleshy stems large ornamental white spathes with yellow spadixes? (5) 1 12 93-down Who was successor as ruler of Cuba (Portrait I)? (56) 113 Gustafsson was the real-world surname of what icon of early talkies (Portrait J)? (5) 1 14 What is the capital of the Czech Republic according to its nationals? (5) 1 16 With Galatea as heroine who is the hero of the two-act Handel masque serenata or pastoral which has an Ovid-sourced text by John Gay with additions by Pope Dryden and Hughes? (4) 117 What English dramatist and writer (1554-1606) was noted for the elaborate artificial style of his two didactic romances Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England (4) 119 What did the old Romans make of 1061? (4) 120 What is equal as the French understand it? (4) 121 What European city was known as Kristiania from 1878 to 1925? (4) 122 Politically of the right wing? (4) 124 What measure of yam is 80 yards of worsted 1 20 yards of cotton or 300 yards of linen? (3) 125 A girl of what name identifies extra-vehicular activity as understood in astronautics? (3) 127 a bit late in the day for this race-starter? (3) 128 What rocky hill is all that remains of Toronto when 67-down is excluded from it? (3) Solution on Tuesday I 112 93-down 113-down Today 930am-5pm Normal 10am-5pm Individual discretion Closed Closed Phone 9235 0333 for emergencies llam-5pm 17 20 21 22 48 1 49 1 57 82 24 NSW bowler Halford Hooker made 62 of the 307 runs which last wicket partners scored against Victoria in 1928-9 Who with a personal score of 260 not out was partner? (46) 25 After tentative beginnings any surviving batsman hopes to get his what? (32) 26 What is the condition of the greatest or most extreme thing achievable andor conceivable? (8) 27 What are nocturnes about? (5) 28 successor as governor of the Greek Academy was Speusippus Who (for 25 years) was the successor of Speusippus in the big job? (10) 32 What are injuries of the skin-graze kind? (9) 33 What was the surname of the American who won the Nobel Peace Prize of 1912? (4) 34 Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus were the four other names of the Roman emperor whose first name was what? (4) 36 Just one singular item of medication to counter a headache? (27) 42 Some solvers might insist that extra-sensory perception is needed for such recognition to be given to it! (111) 43 What North Queensland town is situated on the Burdekin River delta about 80km south-east of Townsville? (3) 46 Most feral? Most typical of the author of Lady Fan (7) 47 In the seventh century AD according to Geoffrey of Monmouth what legendary king of the Britons led his people to Brittany to escape the plague and then proceeded to Rome to pursue a religious life? (11) 48 January 1 2001 will mark the beginning of what? (47) 49 What English politician (1731-1806) was so loudly in favour of taxing the American colonies that King George III made him a baron from which time he personally dominated the House of Lords? (7) 52 What German city gives its name to the Bismarck-doctored telegram which triggered the Franco-Prussian war? (3) 53 What was the name of the husband of daughter Fatima? (3) 61 What sort of case is anyone whose nervous system is diseased or in disorder? (9) 62 Subjected to angrily intimidatory glances at very close range? (9) 65 A dam of what African river near Vereeniging supplies water to the mines of the Witwaters-rand? (4) 67 Being aware of the purpose of somebody secretive shenanigans? not enough for Toronto or Edmonton or even London Town! (22) 68 What jelly-like substance might seem to offer some snooty upper-class mention of a girl? (3) 69 A sheepish expression? (3) 70 What is the highest mountain in Tasmania (1617 metres)? (4) 72 Who was the Republican opponent for President Clinton in the most recent of the presidential elections? (4) 75 What are such gemstones as have some pattern or image incised? (9) 76 How is Don and entanglement an excessive assault on the ear-drums? (45) 21-down 95-down Open every day Today Saturday Sunday and Monday 12 13 14 15 16 1 29 I 39 46 47 I 66 67 70 81 1 96 1 97 1091 1118 119 120 130 1135 2 How is it said (in sharemarket jargon) that prices moved down generally to lower levels? (5) 3 One old music-hall song used to declare that scream and I scream we all scream for (3-5) 4 Tyre was one of the two busy home ports of the far-ranging Phoenicians of antiquity What was the other? (5) 5 Mahe is the principal island of the 87 islands forming which republic (within the British Commonwealth)? (10) 6 Who was king of Babylon in the days of the Jewish prophet Daniel? (14) 7 What are soldiers in sufficient numbers to form a major tactical unit? (45) 8 Portrait is of the English yachtsman who survived the experience of living several days in an overturned yacht in the far south of the Indian Ocean His name? (49) 9 What French philosopher writer and composer (1712-78) was an important influence on French approach to revolution in 1789? (8) 10 What valuable variety of iron ore is often blood-red with red streaks? (9) 11 At a distance of some 23 light years from earth what is the only bright star in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus? (9) 12 What nickname belongs to Detective Constable Lines the character played by actor Kevin Lloyd in the series The Bill (4) 13 What is one of the names that students of European languages sometimes ascribe to Hungary? (5) 14 What is the name of the London home-ground of the Middlesex County Cricket Club? (5) 1 5 The man who arguably was the greatest English geologist of mid-Victorian England had his name given to a formerly copper-rich mountain of west What was that surname? (5) 16 Who was the fifth of the five Cubans whose 10 years war against Spain was a struggle for independence and not a struggle for annexation by the USA? (5) 17 What is the name of the ancient Roman poet whose greatest work the Metamorphoses is a poem in 15 books including historical and mythical tales linked by the theme of transformation? (4) 1 8 What Italian violinist and composer 1 693-1 764) studied with Corelli and toured as a virtuoso before settling down as an impresario in Amsterdam (9) 19 What are blooms which have progressively revealed all petal surfaces? (45) 20 How are lawn clippings sometimes pressed firmly into the turf during cricket-pitch preparation? (8) 21 What Karachi-born daughter of a British captain and his Dutch wife became a star of English stage and film before making her home in Australia with her husband actor John McCallum? Portrait might help (67) 22 What describes any star of the sport in which various Western Australians named Pearce (five men and four women) excelled for Australian representative teams? (63) 23 Who was the first Englishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature? The year was 1907 (77) 136-across 8-down ACROSS In present-day society what formula is prevailingly dominant as to the date of 30-across? (356535449367) What Spanish painter 1 746-1 828) has 103 paintings and 485 etchings and sketches among the exhibits of The Prado Madrid? (4) March 30 1997 for instance or April 7 19967(63) What building at Bowral is regarded as a national treasure by cricketers and non-cricketers alike? (76) What event in the career of Jesus Christ is said to have happened on 30-across? (12) What 1904 play by Anton Chekhov was written for Moscow Art Theatre? (67) Some singular national military headquarters in imitation of (18) What river forms 145 km of boundary for Kirghizia and Kazakhstan in Central Asia? (3) How is a car motor to run when with the foot off the accelerator it has already started but is still disengaged from the transmission? (4) an intense desire longing or urge (to make money)? (3) What is one of those cowboy-country tourist facilities where members of the gentry may holiday in cowboy style? (45) What is the woody core of a maize ear? (43) She only a poddy-calf or maybe a vealer? (53) What is the style of printing type designed by an English type-founder who lived from 1692 to 1766? (6) 49 Veracious in the manner of George Washington in boyhood? (8) 50 What is Japanese flower arrangement called? (7) 51 Having reference to the science of motion without reference to force? (9) In Scottish usage a part of a carcase of beef including the sirloin? Common assent is given a turn (3) What is the name of the Old English letter representing the sound? (3) What is the first name of the singer in Portrait (4) What was the name of the nymph who with her love for Narcissus unrequited pined away until nothing remained but her voice? (4) What sort of European sovereign is unembroidered centrally? (3) Portrait as he was familiarly known? (3) What is the incomparable name for a singular sample of hundreds-and-thousands? (9) Laura or Ita What country gets either assertion tidied up? (9) Russian novelist Turgenev (1818-83) had what terrible first name? (4) What is a kennel or similar container for the transport of a pooch? (6) The film star pictured in Portrait and answering to the name of Mr Ray during the 1950-70 Hollywood era also carried what unsatisfactory load as identification? (4) Deep prawn maelstrom is packaged in enfolding paper and string or tape How so? (9) What is the name of the bus which according to the Australian movie telling the story transports three drag queens through interior? (9) What drug appears to be behind the times in making money? (111) What is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet? complain of getting only half taught!) (3) What is a resident of Maine as distinct from other US New Englanders? (4-6) What colloquial expression of astonishment is occasioned by the gold of the French? (3) What is the short flat stick used to throw up the coins in a game of two-up? (3) Which of the tradespeople in A Midsummer Night Dream is allocated the roar part in the planned play of Pyramus and Thisbe (4) Hero variations include this one as you record it through these eight vacant spaces (8) What is the first part of the assumed name by which Australian singersongwriter David Kirkpatrick is more widely known? (4) 29 30 31 33 35 37 40 41 A 56-across 59-across 78 124 129 89 Presented among the performing principals at operatic HQ? (82255) 90 What is the more familiar name for a hordeolum on the eyelid (4) 91 Reduce music drama ballet painting and sculpture to utter bankruptcy? (44) 92 Who was one of the partnership of explorers who on December 16 1824 arrived at Corio Bay Port Phillip which they mistook for Westernport? (4) 94 What John Milton do in later life? (3) 96 What singular musical presentation is like this to behold? (4) 97 What island of the kingdom of Denmark is near the southern end of the channel known as the Little Bolt? (4) 99 What is a kiss of peace? (3) 101 What described any privileged Christian Spaniard under Moorish rule? (7) 102 Full of piquant relish? (5) 104 What name is given to an American Indian of the kind who in Nebraska practise agriculture and buffalo-hunting? (5) 106 What somewhat derisive nickname used to be applied to tennis star John McEnroe? (4) 108 What was the long-running ABC TV series about a medical practice in which Michael Craig was for many episodes the boss medico? (11) 110 an urchin of the homeless wandering kind? (4) 113 Who captained the English cricket team which on Boxing Day 1873 began its Australian tour with a match against a Victorian team? (5) 114 a group of people gathered together for discussions on radio and TV programs? (5) 115 What may be presumed to be one name for the residents of 13-down? (7) 1 1 8 What former name for a sweetheart is now a description of a love-glance a love -knot a love-sonnet or a love-song? (6) 1 23 A delicate floral or scrolled pattern is characteristic of what white or black fabric of silk or linen? (94) 126 What was the 1870 hit novel by Jules Verne? (687 533) 127 What Australian novelist (1899-1972) wrote My Love Must Wait about navigator Matthew Flinders? (94) 1 29 What fish is characteristic of the Anguillidae (3) 130 Anyone who is no longer one of top-liners? (2-4) 131 Harbourside East Sydney is briefly known as what (3) 132 Tom times? (64) 133 What European output of some 160 stories includes The Ugly Duckling The New Clothes and The Red Shoes (48) 134 What is the name of the suburban Melbourne creek whose banks are a source of turf for the cricket grounds? (5) 135 Portrait was prime minister for the 1932-39 period His name? (5) 136 What is the name of the Chancellor of the University of Sydney (Portrait E)? (66) 137 What is the lingo used and understood in reformatories and similar institutions? (10) DOWN 1 What is the special character of clothing which is of a rough woollen cloth much used for menswear? (10) 71-across 135-across.