Irish Independent

CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS

1 Highly cultivated features of modern cities (4,7) 9 Everything, we hear, for shoemakers (3) 10 Dreadful comedown for Alpine travellers (9) 11 Fashionabl­e racecourse for a northern Briton (5) 13 Madly entwist knitwear? (7) 14 Shelter for fliers (6) 16 A donkey, it’s about to help (6) 18 Trampled, with or without study (7) 19 Regal part of Troy, a long time ago (5) 20 Their guns will be broken, you can safely bet on that! (4,5) 21 Dishonest statement Eli translated (3) 22 Rather toned up figure (11)

DOWN

2 Naturally, it lacks refinement (3) 3 Spread strongly over the East (5) 4 Stays will change a waist (6) 5 Record books I’d come up to sign (7) 6 Need no luxury (9) 7 He will fall on his enemies (11) 8 He prefers to be a man lacking spirit (11) 12 A crowd of a hundred heading the right way (9) 15 He will be called to account (7) 17 Improve Cher in extraordin­ary fashion (6) 19 Stiff clothes I’d put on (5) 21 Star sign of simple, ordinary folk (3)

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