Sunday News

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across 1.

Remember the writer with myosotis (6-2-3)

9. Heath that can produce a rice of a sort (5)

10. The lead one takes with Titian, one I’ve turned around (10)

11. It will shortly produce some woven cloth (5)

12. How can a she-bird be an alternativ­e to a poisonous plant? (7) 14. The fifth note among those returned (3)

15. Mentum is repeated health-wise (4)

16. A neophyte who hasn’t any bad habits (6)

17. Picture of a cold spell (4)

21. It was the state hand-out that gave one grief (4)

22. Getting together with another in the end-game (6)

23. It is hard to find meat that’s done so little (4)

26. An avuncular American missile (3)

27. Restraint used in a scientific experiment of comparison­s (7) 29. An influentia­l person may be an obstructio­n on the piste (5)

30. Being superior to the directors, it is open (5-5)

31. The skin of the head is very thin and papery (5)

32. Those out for material gain, or miners (4-7)

Down

2. Give one’s view of work in the East (5)

3. Captivated on the way in, finally died (9)

4. Is ditched, like many a castle (6)

5. An ant’s is perhaps coming into being (8)

6. Such as get together for a bite to eat (5)

7. End up sounding like one from Helsinki (6)

8. Having taken a trip, guardian spirit finds Beelzebub his Prince (6,5)

12. It’s full after the harvest, Orion’s satellite (7-4)

13. It is at the hub of basilica building (4)

18. On lapsing into some church music (9) 19. Forerunner of trainer having a line on shipping (8)

20. A sort of glass jetty (4)

24. Get back, say, in a shower (6)

25. Much has been written about the mortar on the floor (6)

26. To the South, long in Scotland, it’s not the Queen’s English (5) 28. To tell waiter what one wants is proper arrangemen­t (5)

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