Mini: Going Postal
■ · By wisprabbit · Published 2021-12-28T14:00:14.646Z
A little practice puzzle. I spent all day trying to make this work the other day, and kept getting stuck with bad fills and nonsense words. Today, I tried moving the black squares to the opposite corners, and the fill came together in about two minutes.
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"He said [providing a false prospect of salvation] offered that greatest of all treasures which is ____, sir." - prison warder Mr Wilkinson, Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
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Across
- 1A"He said [providing a false prospect of salvation] offered that greatest of all treasures which is ____, sir." - prison warder Mr Wilkinson, Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
- 5AOne with a particular infectious disease
- 6A"You're ___ __ talk!" - possible response when the pot calls the kettle black
- 7AMeasurements of land
- 8A"Welcome to ____. It's 1A, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might." - Moist von Lipwig, Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
Down
- 1DAs a result
- 2DVery dramatic form of musical theatre
- 3D_____ out: to fade away, to run out of steam
- 4DGreek counterpart of Cupid
- 5DShape of bread or of a sitting cat