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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1. It might come out in bed after dark (5-6) 9. It is beneath upsetting 6 (5) 10. How to push icon in pad sempstress uses (3-7) 11. Fit one out with a last suitable jest (5) 12. Showing a year at a glance, he has designs on developmen­t (7) 14. Fox seen in a bush of ivy (3) 15. A correspond­ing beginning that’s expensive (4) 16. Cured of taking drug to take weight off (6) 17. A roguish part of one’s foot (4) 21. Is bound to occur one year in four (4) 22. A progenitor will almost finish in the role (6) 23. The precise moment in time to steal something (4) 26. Look to make it public knowledge (3) 27. Hear Texan ease out of a deadly disease (7) 29. Is afraid of making it safer (5) 30. He makes his dough and sells what it makes (10) 31. Languor with which nine go around Ugandan capital (5) 32. Ra-ra wearer here cleared of it (11) DOWN 2. Drive to parking in mile, roughly (5) 3. Catch line broken when relating to applied science (9) 4. They don’t win less – or they might (6) 5. Talks ineffectiv­ely with rest anyhow (8) 6. In ancient letters 9 was revised (5) 7. Solemnly command what’s due, jar though it may (6) 8. It is levied on what is one’s own (8,3) 12. Was the embodiment of one’s pride, if upset (11) 13. Idea obtained from a confidenti­al assistant (4) 18. Listen to cheat turning in sorrow (9) 19. Knitwear design is real if it’s different (4,4) 20. Carry a child such as Rupert (4) 24. Weep about a girl in a secret place (6) 25. A more just, if rare, arrangemen­t (6) 26. Old snake jelly (5) 28. Low joint in Lake resort around the North (5)

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