CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

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Gloomy depression’s beginning to lift (5) Embrace nice pals, perhaps, when one goes (7) Meadow in which cattle are fattened (3)

Sure could be unsuspecting (9)

After the game a number complained (7)

Sorts of riddles? (5)

Found and copied (6)

Slumbering, please disturb (6)

Subject of article by me (5)

Get the news about the plant (7)

Very well, do better, friend! (9)

Bio-chemistry for an African tribesman (3) Spaniards holding an article for their wives (7) Joins with the edges (5)

DOWN

The pleasure of dividing five hundred and eight by fifty (7)

2 Complicated to work out (9)

3 One’s cases may rest on them (5)

4 Improves and repairs under direction (6) 5 Crusoe’s disguised tracks (7)

6 Back-dated a leave? (3)

7 Foreign currency poses problems (5)

12 Air which can invigorate the long-distance runner (5,4)

His choice will get cross (7)

Men called upon to preach equality to their male followers (7)

They bring work to doctors, misfortune to the church (6)

Temporarily secures a levy, we hear (5) A ship going round by a bottomless gulf (5) Beastly accommodation for a writer (3)

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DOWN

1 Clumsy mistake (7)

2 Huge Australian monolith (5,4) 3 Flood (5)

4 Introspective (6)

5 Gruesome (7)

6 Droop (3)

7 Journal (5)

12 Highest mountain in the Alps (4,5) 14 Period of opportunity (7) 16 Serious in intention (7)

17 Barely enough (6)

18 Buy and sell (5)

20 Valuable possession (5)

22 Recede (3)