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CROSSWORD

- By David Tossman

Clues across 6. Change for mongrel, eating a

bridge player (6)

8. Crude pen built with frugality

(8)

10. A kind of municipal power

and might unwritten (7)

11. A large yobbo using

everything available (3-3)

12. They will ensure post for good

person with lots of power (6) 13. Look, I cry loudly (7)

15. Varnish obtained with oil

company account (7)

17. A cattle organisati­on is to

provide milk (7)

20. Spy upset stylish clairvoyan­t

(7)

22. Just managing to fit bit of gear

around green flag (6)

24. The first of seven going on to

be discrimina­tory (6)

26. Becomes very candid with

pioneers (5,2)

27. Flee, lacking exercise, not soon

enough to step it up (8)

28. Castro, we learn, buried a

digger (6)

Clues down 1. Present heartless bum in business outfit (6)

2. State banks are being reinvented (8)

3. Used computer program dissembled (7)

4. Organise the collection for a parson (6)

5. How to quickly wind up the

dance (4)

7. A bit of a baby, small, yelling

in an appalling manner (9)

9. A small amount of poetry:

“Brilliant victory allowed” (7) 14. Turn tapas into an Italian style

of appetiser (9)

16. Henry lapses badly, being

pathetic (7)

18. An insect excited some old

timers (8)

19. What you have to kick along

to score remarkably (7)

21. Assassin a popular success on

one of the British Isles (3,3)

23. A small amount of liquor for

each small child (6)

25. One managed a whole

country (4)

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Puzzle No 1083

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