After Time's successful debut in the previous issue of ADS News, this issue sees the welcome return of the ADS crossword stalwart Cryptarch. As ever there is a distinctly archaeological slant to the puzzle, so those with a good knowledge of British archaeology will be at an advantage.

The solution to this issue's crossword will be in the online edition from 1st October 2009:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/newsletter/issue23/issue23/cross_solution.html

This issue the prize is a £20 book token to the submitter of the first correct solution drawn at random on 1st October. Completed puzzles should be posted to us at::

The Archaeology Data Service,
Department of Archaeology,
The King's Manor,
University of York,
York.
YO1 7EP

A MS Word or PDF versions are available from the online edition above, alternatively completed puzzles can be emailed to sj523@york.ac.uk, please remember to include your contact details.

If you're still stuck on Crossword No. 4, the solution is available online here:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/newsletter/issue22/cross_solution.html

Crossword No.5

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Crossword Number 5

Across

  • 1 To shout on is rude at Anglo-Saxon burial site. (6,3)
  • 8 Borat is one apparently. (6)
  • 9 Disembarks on a promontory for a form of archaeology. (9)
  • 10 Is this the real you? (3)
  • 11 Final bit above the lobe may inspire deep affection. (6)
  • 12 King puts law before right. (5)
  • 14 Crude type of drum.(3)
  • 15 Isotopes just won't agree on this gathering. (4)
  • 17 The wind that blows no good? (3)
  • 18 Gong holds nothing to woodwind instrument. (4)
  • 21 Seabird found hiding amongst geisha girls. (4)
  • 22 Inland fires may signal a Holy Island. (11)
  • 25 Type of cap seen associated with the north. (3)
  • 27 Confuse, we hear, 365 times a year! (4)
  • 28 To dehydrate? (5 found here). (10)
  • 29 Orcadian tomb found distressed, shame and woe. (8)
  • 30 A heavenly body? (5)

Down

  • 1 Europe's biggest mound may perhaps half hide 'Surly Bill'. (7,4)
  • 2 Manx Parliament troubles Lady and the North Western leaders (7)
  • 3 Bernini cheekily holds a place for his statues. (5)
  • 4 Gaulish settlement yields Opium mixed with Palladium. (7)
  • 5 Rosemary may be a recipe for (nautical) disaster. (4,4)
  • 6 Clovis point dating is controversially political eh? (11)
  • 7 Ooh... long cry about the order of events. (10)
  • 13 What's discarded may interest the archaeologist. (7)
  • 16 What a door is when its not. (4)
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  • 19 A kind of mythical creature that splits itself in half. (3)
  • 20 Closely examine any seal that's been broken. (7)
  • 23 A girl easily distracted to begin with, matured. (4)
  • 24 Northern area produces mother of pearl. (5)
  • 25 I tear roughly and make angry (5)
  • 26 Metallic minerals found in core samples (4)
  • 27 Mad, deranged, hold back! (3)
  • 28 The Bureau for Alien Affairs trapped a spaceship. (3)

Set by CRYPTARCH

Finished or stuck? Here is the solution.

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