CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4217

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Football position (4,7) 7 Knave 8 Border 11 Artist’s stand 12 A trip 14 Colours skin 16 Peruvian city 19 Occur 22 Heavenly being 24 Ocean gem 25 Ruin 26 Loses greatness

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1 Wooded area 2 Large group 3 Fast 4 A bird 5 Ventilates 6 Private feud 9 Bird of prey 10 Infection agent 13 Guide 15 Former Queen 17 Create 18 Rouses 20 Type of screw

head 21 Strength 22 Copied 23 Work group

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 Complete new draw to keep

for an attacking player (4,7) 7 Hero guesses way to retain

unscrupulous person 8 Incline to a nature strip 11 Release lightest part of stand 12 Dismissed in good trip around 14 Beats colours in the sun 16 Lives in Majorca and starts

for a Peruvian city 19 Occur when chap

penetrates a bit 22 Beautiful woman maybe a

heavenly messenger 24 Lustrous nacre found in

famous harbour 25 Make a big mess in raw

reckoning 26 Loses power in senate with

greed ill-disposed

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1 Set for change in the woods 2 Part of race with one aboard multitude 3 Speedy lot of ships 4 Talk wildly with new bird 5 Songs about remade sari ... 6 . . . owing to length of

unfriendly engagement 9 Each leg is different in

good golfer’s score 10 Country without any

disease producer 13 A guide, she is set in an

ancient city 15 Former Queen of Cannery

Row? 17 Create something new in

expression 18 Arouses one badly askew 20 Type of screw head for

Peter or Woody maybe 21 Strength in ability to act 22 Acted the same in some

cheap edition 23 Group of workers doubled

up for a bird