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30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 & 19Dn. The Scriptures completely recorded, we hear (4,4)

3. Telephone the youths they’re needed backstage (4-4)

8. They stop people telling jokes (4)

9. It needs a good man to goad a fish (8)

11. He joins the family after the match ! (7-2-3)

13. What is taught wearing fewer clothes (6)

14. Polish - or North European, one hears! (6)

17. Those who have standard commission­s (4-8)

20. A girl one limited to a particular area, maybe (8)

21. The bird that runs along the top of the fence (4)

22. I act strangely and go round without saying a word (8)

23. In the contest I raised a disturbanc­e (4)

DOWN

1. Strong drink will encourage the tennis-player to smash ! (4-4)

2. The French make progress by southern inland waters (7)

4. A vital link in circulatio­n (6)

5. A complaint one has difficulty in voicing clearly? (10)

6. The last character to leave some gathering (5)

7. The girl’s making a comeback - that’s sensible (4)

10. Evicted for the whole length of the proceeding­s, we hear (10)

12. The referee’s an artist (8)

15. Associated with previous stage turn? That’s not absolutely correct (7)

16. What the traveller pays, one hears, for romantic intrigue (6)

18. Clearly there’s some reason for this to be a science (5)

19. See 1 Across

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Taking shape; 9 Amateur; 10 Nurse; 11 Natal; 12 Special; 13 Hatred; 15 Hollow; 18 Airship; 20 Trade; 22 Trunk; 23 Air-race; 24 Churchmous­e.

Down: 2 Apart; 3 Ice-floe; 4 Garish; 5 Hinge; 6 Partial; 7 Faint-hearts; 8 Yellow fever; 14 Through; 16 Ontario; 17 Splash; 19 Hiker; 21 Amass.

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