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the crosswords
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Sturdy flower, first of the year (6) 4 Kind of licence needed for ace
pilot’s aerobatics (8) 9 Watched United compete for
leadership (6) 10 Fish and insects turn a drab colour
(8) 12 Confidence trickster’s aim spells
trouble (2-2) 13 Move stealthily as a rattlesnake
(5) 14 Quiet little man making money (4) 17 They take interest in their work
(12) 20 Evidently one not represented by
another (4-8) 23 Still sharing the points (4) 24 Body in the baggage (5) 25 Duck leaves lake (4) 28 By which railways earn extra
money? (8) 29 Order still from a photographer?
(4,2) 30 Called attention to being under
tension (8) 31 Staff of office? (6)
DOWN
1 Make minute economies? (4,4) 2 Completed more than once? That’s
too much (8) 3 Hold a strong position (4) 5 Getting into deep water? (7,5) 6 Aunt cooked fish (4) 7 It’s bought by the metre but worn
out by the foot (6) 8 Stop and fire (3,3) 11 Intrusion which may spoil the
reception (12) 15 Why pedlars admitted having
oversold a product (5) 16 React clumsily in boxing (5) 18 Lend a car out for a period of
twelve months (8) 19 They make the least and most
effort on a track (8) 21 It comes between opposing sides
(6) 22 A nurse needs to be
compassionate (6) 26 Pals fall out in the mountains (4) 27 Game reserves (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Gravely sedate (6) 4 Deeply moving (8) 9 An incongruous mixture (6) 10 Alienate (8) 12 Opposed to (4) 13 Trap (5) 14 Endure (4) 17 Flying at very low altitude (12) 20 Unemotional (6-2-4) 23 Gather as harvest (4) 24 First public appearance (5) 25 Face of a clock (4) 28 Spice from a tree bark (8) 29 Landlocked central African country (6) 30 Person of consequence (8) 31 Purpose (6)
DOWN
1 Fellow-feeling (8) 2 Liberality of interpretation (8) 3 Encounter (4) 5 Unruly (12) 6 Influential teacher (4) 7 Yearly (6) 8 Formal international agreement (6) 11 Final hopeless impasse (3,2,3,4) 15 Tree associated with Lebanon (5) 16 Powdered tobacco (5) 18 Inconstant (8) 19 An unwavering partisan (8) 21 A summary (6) 22 Large wine bottle (6) 26 Style of clothing (4) 27 Principal (4)