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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Decor mostly showing plant’s stem-base 3 Play with horse-drawn vehicle around very old leaders 6 Witty remark can hold people for a very short time 7 Class of people’s literal characters 8 Characteristic of art replaced with it 10 Gentle glow a good cooked meal provides 12 Put on something for a coach ... 13 ... beginning on a series of dance movements 16 Fish caught in Israel in good numbers 18 A pie to be made as a derivative of opium 19 Structural surrounds originally made safer again 20 Seen in low spirits left with broken mug

DOWN 1 Arrive with the first space traveller 2 Sporting events in general encounter 3 Little beds with apricot shoots inside 4 Tax on a large container 5 Concerned with position to fill again 9 Turncoat with rank is much more irritable 11 Come down in last leg when stepping ashore 14 Some other method used for measure of heat 15 Sobs about damaged decorative knob 17 Make fast in the tree

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS 1 A plant base 3 Play around 6 Short time 7 Variety 8 Characteristic 10 Shine brightly 12 Part of theatre 13 The beginning 16 Heather 18 A drug 19 Skeletons 20 Morose

DOWN 1 Falling star 2 Encountering 3 Babies’ beds 4 Large container 5 Take over position 9 More unsettled 11 Coming down 14 Heat measure 15 A stud 17 Sticky substance