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the crosswords
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Book in reverse order (7) 5 Wild revel in the bar (5) 8 Today’s charges for electricity (7,6) 9 Gets level; nonetheless loses
nothing (5) 10 Raw material used in pig
production (4,3) 11 Stick around at home like a dog (6) 12 Sweater creates thirst (1-5) 15 Met punk perhaps looking rough (7) 17 Presents one’s natural talents (5) 19 Poser for the card player? (6,7) 20 Gloomy doctor has a listener (5) 21 How time flies (7)
DOWN
1 A fringe gathering of
lacemakers (5) 2 It’s responsible for cuts in the
theatre (8,5) 3 Winds up with part of a film on
crime (5,2) 4 Involve in late changes (6) 5 In popular government it’s noted
for its slowness (5) 6 Girl comes a cropper in
Zambia (8,5) 7 A particular deference (7) 11 Curt ode about loved one (7) 13 Foreign lady has dropped in after
marriage (7) 14 New plates may be made of
metal (6) 16 Manufacturer right below
form (5) 18 Superfluous oil wells (5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
DOWN
1 A rice-based dish (7) 5 Thoroughly proficient (5) 8 Do wrong with impunity (3,4,4,2) 9 General purport (5) 10 Without wide variations (7) 11 A command (6) 12 A forge (6) 15 North American bison (7) 17 Range over in search (5) 19 Bearing provocation
stoically (4-9) 20 Impoverished (5) 21 Newborn child’s complete
outfit (7) 1 Fair (5) 2 Remain neutral in dispute (3,2,3,5) 3 In the direction of (7) 4 Ubiquitous gaseous element (6) 5 Goodbye (5) 6 A show-off (13) 7 Likely to fall (7) 11 Old city famed for Hanging Gardens (7) 13 Inexplicable matter (7) 14 Lamentably bad (6) 16 Testing of metal’s quality (5) 18 Scamp (5)