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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. With Celsius, we style ice in an aromatic way (5-6)

9. Is conscious of there being an item of merchandis­e (5)

10. Give cigar to man arranging this sort of marriage (10)

11. How to accommodat­e a royal line (5)

12. Trinket made by one plying the needles (7)

14. Soak the others without using sulphur (3)

15. It is an expression for one’s time at school (4)

16. The fibula might need this support after a break (6)

17. The chief stud (4)

21. What draughtsma­n will do to attract one (4)

22. Silky wool may go with Aran maybe (6)

23. For every individual may impart knowledge without a head (4) 26. One may drink like a fish (3)

27. Atom in element has poise to model itself on (7)

29. Customary turn Saul could have taken (5)

30. Casual din a client may create (10)

31. Potato in the form carpenter produces (5)

32. Tending to moralise about sin, to use net in such a way (11)

DOWN

2. Am now to be fashioned in female form (5)

3. Screwed up by being intoxicate­d: need to change (9)

4. Refuse to acknowledg­e developmen­t of the region (6)

5. Exit, or re-assemble outside (8)

6. Craft for industry finally to chat about (5)

7. Amateur loses head and gets upset if due for payment (6)

8. Fixed meter in date set out for it (11)

12. Bonnet with an urgent request for lip-service (4-2-5)

13. When about fifty, might die to do no work (4)

18. None but the North and South can produce a hat like this (3,6) 19. A watchtower one can provide with a horse on top (8)

20. A one man performanc­e at whist of a sort (4)

24. One related to us in specie (6) 25. Is avoiding extremes where the waist is concerned (6) 26. Sheer happiness of Arthur, who composed (5)

28. A rice dish is one Los Angeles could make up (5)

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