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Sporting Chance 3

· By Melanie Branton · Published 2025-03-06T13:33:46.260Z

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  • namitea 5:59 · 2025-03-06T18:32:58.732Z
    I learnt more about cricket today than in my whole life before this haha. Thank you!
  • Shark 🤓4:52 · 2025-03-06T20:36:31.426Z
    Bowled over by this series :-) Thanks!
    • Melanie Branton constructor · 2025-03-06T22:39:35.356Z
      You've made this maiden go all googly <3
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓51s · 2025-03-07T02:27:42.574Z
      Fun as always, thank you!
      Any tips for parsing the second half of 7A?
      And not immediately apropos, but a shout-out to Minute Cryptic as well, which has also been very educational!
      • Melanie Branton constructor · 2025-03-07T09:46:17.369Z
        In cricket, if the batsman hits the ball over the boundary of the cricket ground without the other team managing to catch or stop it, then they score points. If they hit it over the boundary but it's touched the ground before it gets there, they score four points, and this is called a FOUR. If they manage to hit it outside the pitch boundary WITHOUT it touching the ground, then they score six points, and this is called a SIX.
        The Brownies (like Girl Guides, but smaller) come in packs, like wolves. Each pack is divided into smaller groups - if you don't know what they were called, you may Google it.
    1A
    Costa, weirdly, is where a lot of horse races happen (5)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Costa, weirdly, is where a lot of horse races happen (5)
    2. 6A
      Commit crime in school sports lesson and get an investigation (5)
    3. 7A
      Boundaries have been crossed in a test for elves, gnomes, sprites, kelpies etc. (5)
    4. 8A
      Is in Paris to miss beginning of cricket match (3)
    5. 9A
      Vegetables served by sports teams (5)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Ass gets mixed up with PE in parts of a church (5)
    2. 2D
      Part of a great cricketing nation - the other part is reportedly lanker (3)
    3. 3D
      Coaxed to drop article and acted as helmsman (5)
    4. 4D
      Robe seldom covers the very fat (5)
    5. 5D
      Tries cricket matches (5)
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