Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Cargo in use for a sort of farming (7)

4. Tempted to make one decent (7)

8. Sound of note will add some colour to it (4)

9. Having a monstrous appetite, Georgia rang aunt about it (10) 11. Is not educated, like the book one didn’t open (6)

12. He makes films, or could first get credit for it (8)

14. Bird might fill in a nosegay (9)

15. Had dinner as part of board, in Edinburgh (5)

17. Countrifie­d retreat in particular urban area (5)

18. It can be done as a sort of joke (9)

19. The getting over of illness, or cry Eve gave out (8)

21. Drink one may rhyme for a nicker (6)

23. They may be the last one sees of the car at night (4-6) 24. Singing voice is a lot different from this (4)

25. Hat Eton’s produced on the street (7)

26. Framework for car chase doesn’t finish: sister loses half (7)

DOWN

1. But our men must turn, to be more numerous (9) 2. Usual rehearsal for what family doctor is in (7,8) 3. Kaolin is what’s used up in royal chinaware (4)

4. His home is a place like Windsor, they say (10) 5. Suffusion of colour to get in mixing it (5)

6. They love to go two by two (8,7)

7. He gives one a sort of rondo (5)

10. Legal wife in a full makeover (6)

13. Flower with which one pardons nag perhaps (10) 15. Section of a painting one can describe minutely (6) 16. With mind wandering, I’d our lies to sort out (9) 19. Assesses one for old local tax (5)

20. Mouselike animals solve them like this (5)

22. Of the ear, as company holds it up (4)

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