1942 Crossword Puzzle
Could you have been a
Codebreaker
at Bletchley Park
working alongside
Alan Turing?
On
Tuesday 13th January 1942
the Daily Telegraph
printed a cryptic crossword which played a crucial
role in helping
the allies win the Second World War.
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If you can solve it, you just might of
helped crack the Enigma Code.
1942 Crossword
Puzzle
Answers Below
Completed 1942 Crossword Puzzle
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Answers Across
1 - Troupe
4 -
Short Cut
9 - Privet
10 - Aromatic
12 - Trend
13 - Great
Deal
15 - Owe
16 - Feign
17 - Newark
22 - Impale
24 -
Guise
27 - Ash
28 - Centre Bit
31 - Token
32 - Lame Dogs
33 - Racing
34 - Silencer
35 - Alight
Answers Down
1 - Tipstaff
2 -
Olive Oil
3 - Pseudonym
5 - Horde
6 - Remit
7 - Cutter
8
- Tackle
11 - Agenda
14 - Ada
18 - Wreath
19 - Right Nail
20 - Tinkling
21 - Sennight
23 - Pie
25 - Scales
26 - Enamel
29 - Rodin
30 - Bogie
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1942 Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 - A stage company (6)
4 - The direct route preferred by the Roundheads (5,3)
9 - One of the ever-greens (6)
10 - Scented (8)
12 - Course with an apt finish (5)
13 - Much that could be got from a timber merchant (5,4)
15 - We have nothing and are in debt (3)
16 - Pretend (5)
17 - Is this town ready for a flood? (6)
22 - The little fellow has some beer, it makes me lose colour, I say (6)
24 - Fashion of a famous French family (5)
27 - Tree (3)
28 - One might of course use this tool to core an apple (6,3)
31 - Once used for unofficial currency (5)
32 - Those well brought up help these over stiles (4,4)
33 - A sport in a hurry (6)
34 - Is the workshop that turns out this part of a motor a hush-hush affair? (8)
35 - An illuminating functioning (6)
1942 Crossword Puzzle
Down
1 - Official instruction not to forget the servants (8)
2 - Said to be a remedy for a burn (5,3)
3 - Kind of alias (9)
5 - A disagreeable company (5)
6 - Debtors may have to this money for their debts unless of course their creditors do it to the debts (5)
7 - Boat that should be able to suit anyone (6)
8 - Gear (6)
11 - Business with the end in sight (6)
14 - The right sort of woman to start a dame school (3)
18 - "The war" (anag.) (6)
19 - When hammering take care not to hit this (5,4)
20 - Making sound as a bell (8)
21 - Half a fortnight of old (8)
23 - Bird, dish or coin (3)
25 - This sign of the zodiac has no connection with the fishes (6)
26 - A preservative of teeth (6)
29 - Famous sculptor (5)
30 - This part of the locomotive engine would sound familiar to the golfer (5)