The petticoated.com Quick Crossword
by Charles 
The petticoated.com Quick Crossword Spring 2003

Here is petticoated.com's second quick crossword. Remember, these are ordinary 'tea break' crosswords, so don't be frightened of them. Charles will publish another of his difficult cryptic challenges in the Christmas Annual, for the delectation of girls like Julie Anne. To begin with, here is the solution of the Spring crossword:

And now for the grid and the clues for the Summer crossword. This will best be solved whilst reclining in a striped deckchair, either in one's back garden, or on the beach, one's face protected from the sun with a hat made from an origamied double page from a broadsheet newspaper (the 'Daily Telegraph' if possible):
ACROSS
1 Some men may boldly go where no man has gone before, but many hesitate to penetrate these outlets! (8, 5)
8 Piggies may nestle in these. (7)
9 "Words may be false and full of art,
 — are the natural language of the heart" - Thomas Shadwell 1674 (5)
10 Skate. (3)
11 Just one beneficial result of petticoat discipline. (9)
12 Cry of delight. (6)
14 Kind of overall for women. (6) ( - and recalcitrant males!  S. MacD. pub.)
17 Send to Coventry. (9)
19 Soap, perhaps. (3)
20 State of the U.S.A. (5)
21 Suitable attire in retirement. (7)
22 One of Nanny Susan's WMD (Weapons of Male Destruction). (13)
( - too powerful for those brave men in 1 across apparently! - S. MacD pub.)  
DOWN
1 Scattered, icily robed? Bet this would have kept you warm! (7, 6)
2 Follows, perhaps, when close encounters become too close! (5)
3 Blot on the landscape. (7)
4 Sounds a smart way for soldiers to march - showing the arch of the foot! (6)
5 Japanese dish. (5)
6 See-through material for pretty party dresses etc. (7)
7 Hose connector, in a way, this item of underwear. (9,4)
13 Sheepish term of endearment. (3, 4)
15 Inflicts retribution on behalf of a wrong. (7)
16 Yellowish pigment, reddish brown when roasted. (6)
18 Romantic entanglement, often secret. (5)
19 Take a dip. (5)

Scientist Competition 
Last issue's answer: Franz Kafka and his two sisters.
I'm not getting many entries in the 'famous children' competitions in each issue. Doesn't anybody want tickets to the Abbott and Costello film festival at the Grimsby Odeon? Here we have a picture from the late 1880s; the boy's school career was not outstanding, and he left at the age of 15, only gaining high marks in Latin and Mathematics. His parents were middle class Jews, and he is photographed here with his younger sister, both in their best clothing.
 
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