Mercury (Hobart)

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

6 Fans aficionado­s

9 Anything extremely small to be in themorning

10 Early kings from London out skirts made a brick oven 11 Abandoned when left in the lurch 12 Pleasing to leave end to end 13 ... so does without pieces of turf 15 Wagers starting by Easter and finishing at Christmas 17 Without temper at the end of the queue–fairdinkum! 18 In fact, one item of Near Eastern clothing 19 Wary about being wrong 20 Here after does without crimson, scarlet, vermilion and their like 22 Nonsensica­l states of inaccurate US diatribes

DOWN

1 Doing badly in front, between blue and violet 2 Parachutin­g into a cabin 3 Intimidate­s when subject to fear 4 Repeatedly set up by a sleeping sickness carrier 5 A team’ s subdued utterances 7 Has finished bowling badly and inclines down wards 8 Visited, and stopped over 13 Cola is prepared for a get-together 14 Makes a few hen fed up with treatment 15 Elsewhere a bets a brutal person 16 Or ties up British right-wingers 17 Take one’s time to hang about 21 Give up the ghost in the audience

STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS

6 Zealots

9 Minute quantity 10 Furnace

11 Broke with

12 Righteous

13 Divots

15 Punts

17 Genuine

18 Long loose

garment

19 Askew

20 Wines

22 Ridiculous things

DOWN

1 Blued ye 2 Small, simple house 3 Easily alarmed 4 African fly 5 Actors’ under tones 7 Suspends 8 Made a temporary stay 13 Friendly 14 Calm a situation 15 Large four-footed animal 16 Conservati­ve Party members(UK) 17 Wait 21 Pass away

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