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QUICK CLUES
Across
1. Colleges (12)
7. Fastener (5)
8. Rise up against (5)
9. Enemy (3)
10. Wonderful (9)
11. Provides for (6)
12. Athletics field event (6)
15. Definitely (9)
17. Make a mistake (3)
18. Got up (5)
19. Biblical character (5)
21. Irascible (12)
Down
1. The world's largest stretch of sea (7,5) 2. Beverage (3) 3. Managing (6) 4. Ordinariness (9) 5. John ---, explorer (5) 6. Australian town (5,7) 7. Fissure (5) 10. Heavens (9) 13. European (5) 14. Confine (6) 16. Girl's name (5) 20. Mineral (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1. Celt in Psycho movie about places of learning (12)
7. Hold a fastener (5) 8. Bandleader in a dance with the dissenter (5) 9. Enemy of the Foreign Office goes east (3) 10. I can't fast, anyway. That's wonderful! (9) 11. Provides for the Queen going into the musical (6)
12. Talk almost entirely about the event (6) 15. No doubt I react badly, getting left in New York (9) 17. Make a mistake in terrible circumstances (3) 18. Got up to get a flower (5)
19. I return to church and find Cain's eldest son (5) 21. Somehow cause Ron to surround the vehicle, being quarrelsome (12)
Down
1. A mainly peaceful area (7,5)
2. Ate rearranged meal (3)
3. Managing to see a policeman mixing gin (6) 4. Then, at last, my tailor gets changed. That's typical! (9)
5. Some tobacco brought back by the explorer (5)
6. Girl gets the prisoner out of Australia (5,7)
7. A hundred left divided (5)
10. Heavens! Men at work at the company (9)
13. European who might bounce, say (5)
14. Confine a fashionable bird (6)
16. Female artist becomes a hod carrier (5)
20. Alternatively an eastern mineral (3)
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