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CROSSWORD

- by David Tossman

Clues across

4. The Animals note French article and English one (5) 6. Your clothes for a bash? (7) 8. A crocodile, for example, can produce tear-drop (8) 9. Credit one person of intelligen­ce with being tempting when it comes to the crunch (6) 10. Political leader I judge to be criminal (6) 11. Haunted bridge player spilt the beans (7) 12. School head is involved in rackets backed in sitting of parliament (7) 14. Memorial shows he comes back eating pocket bread quietly (7) 18. Determined to form a clique of ghosts (4,3) 20. Some French manage to come back having been taken care of (6) 22. River enters ocean by a boat harbour (6) 23. Sort of Croatian Big Mac? (8) 24. Princess goes in to attempt building a leather factory (7) 25. Put little tip in to economise with ointment (5)

Clues down

1. Turn crank onto physician with a plain cold? No, a cold plain (6) 2. Caught you out there! Obtained tea (6) 3. Support a journey by old Penny (6) 4. Pardon courage at regular intervals in basketball team (7) 5. A style of design some worrywart deconstruc­ted (3,4) 6. A body provides firm with odd letters in riposte (6) 7. Cut degree of peril in wager (7) 13. Standing in the terminal (7) 15. A small price to pay for a lousy nine EPs (7) 16. Senior cleric before and after the due time (7) 17. Strongly built and right into learning (6) 18. A shortage of woven thread (6) 19. Climbed like a lizard (6) 21. Hark back to telephone once more (6)

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Puzzle No 1161

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