Theme – Predicting the Future
by Roy Arnott and Ken Greatorex
(with your choice of straight or cryptic clues)
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“STRAIGHT” CLUES
CLUES ACROSS:
1. Reveal the future by divine inspiration [8]
4. Writing implement [3]
8. One who tells the future by reading animal entrails[8]
10. Shrine of a prophetic deity [6]
13. Large container for liquids [3]
14. Evil spell [3]
15. Clairvoyant [4]
16. A null result for a date prediction [5]
17. Spirit [3]
19. Naval combat-capable vessel [7]
20. Prediction using a card deck [5]
22. Labels [4]
24. See 28 Down
25. Site of ancient Greece’s major 10 across [6]
27. Confection of sweet paste and nuts [6]
29. Divination through cheese [9]
32. See 31 Down
34. Expect; look forward to [10]
35. Ice House [5]
36. Nonstandard usage; mistake; incongruity [8]
39. Gloomy [4]
CLUES DOWN:
1. Foretell from signs or symptoms [13]
2. Indication of coming calamity [8]
3. Create a design on a hard surface [4]
4. Cover or lay a path with concrete, stones, etc[4]
5. Period of time marked by distinctive character or events [3]
6. Hard-shelled fruit [3]
7. Estimate by projecting known data [11]
9. Prediction of elections and political trends [10]
11. Hind limb [3]
12. Be [5]
18. Omen; sign [9]
21. Phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil [4]
23. Suitably; appropriately [5]
26. Verse consisting of groups of two syllables, first short, second long[6]
28. & 24 across: Gypsy fortune teller’s apparatus (two words, [7], [4])
30. Minor deities represented as beautiful maidens [6]
31. & 32 Across: The trick-taking cards in a Tarot deck (two words, [5], [6])
32. Alter [5]
33. Official ancient Roman seer [5]
CRYPTIC CLUES
CLUES ACROSS:
1. Use shop pyre to see the future [8]
4. A Quaker, cut short, becomes a writer [3]
8. It is disembowelled. Now we know. [8]
10. A small lightweight boat drops a hundred for the prophetic deity [6]
13. A tax in the Holy See? [3]
14. Spell six [3]
15. Direction to Queen for clairvoyant [4]
16. Noble gas with Queen after five? Not at all. [5]
17. Get the artillery out the food crop. That’s the spirit. [3]
19. A for O swap in ritual devotion for one of the gray funnel line [7]
20. Sailor on overtime? It’s on the cards [5]
22. Tickets for the Troop Ship containing silver [4]
24. See 28 Down
25. Pi held locus of predictive powers [6]
27. Oat gun produces sweet confection [6]
29. Blessed are the cheese makers for they shall see [9]
32. See 31 Down
34. Ape in attic prepares for future possibility [10]
35. Shift the plot on a Jovian moon for ice shelter [5]
36. It aint proper [8]
39. A party at ancient city is rather glum [4]
CLUES DOWN:
1. Goat inspector tells the future [13]
2. Left with Ear, Nose and Throat specialists, add sulphur – ominous signs [8]
3. Two masted sailing craft missing a thousand cuts the surface [4]
4. Swamp avenger’s elements cover the ground [4]
5. Take back verb to be for a period [3]
6. This food source is a part of nutrition [3]
7. Lax operetta to project us into the unknown [11]
9. Cast a vote? Who knows? [10]
11. Back gel [3]
12. Sulphur placed in way out is to be [5]
18. Processed grain herb indicates what is to come [9]
21. Remove Motor Transport from torque to give clue to the future [4]
23. Adapt lyre bird to show suitability for the circumstances [5]
26. Stressed feet in Siam bicycle tour [6]
28. &24 across: Most authors suggest that this should be used in a dimly-lit and quiet room, so as to foster visions and more easily allow the onset of a trance state (two words, [7], [4])
30. Henry had them playing with shepherds [6]
31. & 32 Across: Officer takes part of circle with extinct airline and comes up trumps (two words, [5], [6])
32. 500 at the end of prayer to change [5]
33. Work on a guru to read the will of the gods [5]