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the crosswords
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Instruct attendants (5) 8 Review in a paper is distorted (8) 9 Keep quiet about much inertia (5) 10 It’s plain stupid for a mountaineer (8) 11 Twenty points made by the team (5) 12 Either way it’s an appeal for help (3) 16 Shut a tin-opener in a cupboard (6) 17 Native American has father in pain (6) 18 Back wages? Just talk (3) 23 Edna’s out in the mountains (5) 24 Food for people or horses (8) 25 A lighthouse casts it across the vessel (5) 26 Wet weather reportedly is prevailing (8) 27 It often falls but doesn’t break (5)
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2 A check on the present demand for bread (4,4) 3 Profit is the attraction (8) 4 Moon rocket gets ahead on oxygen (6) 5 Dog track (5) 6 Call on Violet to take a seat (5) 7 Given no credit apparently for being slow (5) 12 A journalist you see holding a pen (3) 13 The fool takes a retrograde step (3) 14 An individual consumer (8) 15 Animals involved in the chase (8) 19 Display by top-class band (6) 20 Begin a jump (5) 21 Doctor introduces contest to provide entertainment (5) 22 United to make reparation (5)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Stupid person (5) 8 Appraising glance (4-4) 9 A thin soup (5) 10 Menacing show of force (3,5) 11 Chide (5) 12 In favour of (3) 16 A game bird (6) 17 Lack of interest (6) 18 Road (3) 23 Big and strong (5) 24 Very soon (2,1,5) 25 Inferior to (5) 26 A trivial irritation (8) 27 Landing pier (5)
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2 Publicly known (2,6) 3 Restrain for a time (6,2) 4 A deep shade of blue (6) 5 Strained (5) 6 Shun (5) 7 Male duck (5) 12 A handful (3) 13 Narrow beam of light (3) 14 Unaided vision (5,3) 15 Blinding blizzard (5-3) 19 Pretend to feel (6) 20 Chilly (5) 21 Half-hearted (5) 22 Easily provoked (5)