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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
30 1 Provide a contortionist,
given too much money (8) 5 House surgeon holds
applications (4)
9 Places knotted tie in ship (5) 10 Poor unfed, heartless feline
is non-existent! (7)
11 Of sound mind on Parisian
river, it's said (4) 13 Excursion to ancient city (4) 14 Part of a stone weight (3) 16 I'm a long time getting the
pictures (6)
18 Catch parent being drunk (6) 21 Article you and I dread (3) 22 A pot of marmalade,
perhaps, open (4) 8 Deliberate insult from a
female head (7)
12 Member to provide
weapons (3)
15 Meander around, given
new title (7)
17 Always young, but held
back by Matisse legacy (7) 19 Boxer turns up in Sri Lanka (3) 20 Scottish dish for US soldier
among the witches (6) 21 Supple as a cropped jacket (5) 24 One in Panama, perhaps, acquiring one Caribbean country (5)
25 Quietly chat about the
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plot of ground (5)
26 Gosh – I love this US state! (4) 23 Vessel in dish, I presume (4) 27 Lettuce a shipping hazard? (7) 28 The man first to get to the
robbery (5)
29 Teas blended in the
Orient? (4)
30 Surprise shots in a riot (8)
DOWN
1 When I must be seen in
very large fertile spot (5) 2 John was in the hotel
tonight (5)
3 Staff appointment (4) 4 Elected party given
alternative sort of sports (6) 6 Politician's treason
unravelled (7)
7 Placed bottom among
material (5)
COFFEE TIME
ACROSS
1 Given excessive
remuneration (8) 5 Applications (4)
9 Building locations (5) 10 Extinct (7)
11 Completely sensible (4) 13 Sightseeing trip (4) 14 20cwt (3)
16 Likenesses (6)
18 Catch in a snare (6) 21 Amazement (3)
22 Almost closed (4)
23 Large watercraft (4) 27 Crisp lettuce (7)
28 Gene Hackman and Danny
DeVito crime thriller (5) 29 Compass point opposite
west (4)
30 Amaze (8)
DOWN
1 Fertile desert area (5) 2 First name of singer/pianist Mr John (5) 3 Appointed place of a
soldier on watch (4)
4 Of sports, played under a
roof (6)
6 American politician (7) 7 Closely woven silk (5) 8 Deliberate insult (7) 12 Upper limb (3)
15 Called something else (7) 17 Ever-fresh (7)
19 Late heavyweight boxing
champion (3)
20 Burns Night dish (6) 21 Flexible (5)
24 Caribbean nation, capital
Port-au-Prince (5)
25 Eye cover (5)
26 America's Buckeye state (4)