Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Germ Tom got from a washer (7)

6. Easy, comfortabl­e copper is retiring (5)

9. About nine start ululating through boredom (5)

10. Various straits painters may get into (7)

11. Grass them for the ordinary people (5)

12. It’s about sound icons can make (5)

13. One of seven Japanese, or all seven of them (7)

15. An antelope coming from a palm one planted out (6)

16. Celtic priest did Rugby Union, or a form of it (5)

18. Took a picture of some animal in Central Africa (5)

20. One-seeded parts of a fruit put back in a basic cocktail (5)

21. A Croat turned Thespian (5)

22. Get into gear to betroth oneself (6)

25. Swift answer got from priest about nothing (7)

26. Conical shaft in a circular bore-hole (5)

27. He appears in flat hat that didn’t cost much (5)

28. It’s obvious I’d entered a horse-riding competitio­n (7)

29. East from Eden, a place of shelter (5)

30. A cement placed at beginning and end of tracery (5)

31. They pay rent to a number of industriou­s creatures (7)

DOWN

1. He makes things vitreous by his lung-power (5-6)

2. The most favourable points to aim top, perhaps (6)

3. X-rays in mobile units may grip so hard as necessary (4,11)

4. Range of a voice is a truest form of it (9)

5. It is about a hospital department (5)

6. Limitation of porn music critic writes about (15)

7. In feet, spin coda out (8)

8. It expresses vehement satisfacti­on? Indeed! (3)

14. Meet rations put out for puppets on strings (11)

17. It puts one off the reed Trent supplies (9)

19. The most cross grain set out (8)

23. Like the bird that’s behind the sailor (6)

24. How a half VC is superior to OBE (5)

27. Trophy for a hole on the golf course (3)

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