CROSSWORDS

Slip out of gear (7) Solicitors hold it to be permissible (5) A job done for nothing? (9,4) 9 Not a long extract, but one could get hooked on it (5) There are many sides to it (7) 11 A stern guide (6) 12 A team’s confidences (6) 15 It’s not bound to be distributed (7) Agree to score (5) Having the wisdom not to get excited (13) Moves gradually away from the centre (5) Listens out for recruits (7) 1 5

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1 Unsuitable form of fun has it (5) 1 5 8 9

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Fictitious (7) Authoritative book (5) Go to great trouble (3,7,3) Sudden forward thrust (5) Phantom (7) Breach in church unity (6) Bewilder (6) Sports official (7) Haughty (5) In a state of terror (5-8) Mournful poem (5) With good reason (7) 2

Cheating by giving two cards instead of one (6-7) 3 Understanding French (7) Sound move, plain to a Russian (6) Disinfectant some rely solely upon (5) What I should have done, if I were in your position (7,6) Returns from business (7) A cause of repeated illfeeling (7) Schoolboy’s book case (7) Worked hard to convert voters (6) A girl with good ones will attract a lot of them (5) Shouts out agreement about a fifty-fifty arrangement (5) 4 5 6 7 11 13 14 16 18 1 2

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Horrify (5) Avoid committing oneself (3,2,3,5) Social behaviour (7) Leave off (6) Misrepresent (5) Lose money on a deal (2,3,2,6) Drastic (7) A moral doubt (7) Staggering (7) Superior (6) Unstable (5) Comical (5)