The Citizen (Gauteng)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across 1. My bachelor party’s first in European city (7) 5. Judge about to welcome good man on board (6) 9. Boy recalled short tweet: This smell (7) 10. Endless pontoon’s played, missing around (7) 11. Sash features now and then in Holbein (3) 12. Reject country reported to produce hard work (5,6) 13. Keynote changes into (5) 14. Tell all to appear innocent (4,5) 16. Spin doctors ruin Ken’s poems (9) 17. New joint almost backed aristocrat (5) 19. School warden’s a sweet guy (8,3) 22. Heard duet as well (3) 23. Gas that’s meant to be mixed with helium (7) 24. Men tucked into almost ripe fruit (7) 26. Exile left behind Germany and Spain (6) 27. Waste donkey’s years without Karen, making journey (7) Down 1. Firm, neutral and kind, like Albert or Philip (7) 2. USA-run lotteries organised game of bravado (7,8) 3. One form of propulsion on Amazon river originally (3) 4. Dial funny bishop to get impromptu remark (2-3) 5. Relative like Nell Gwyn, say, lacking gravity (9) 6. Sort of man who’s satisfied by meal without starter? (5) 7. Lots thaw better curling up with love or with these (3-5,7) 8. Spotted hiding place for organ (6) 12. He hosts 1100 with out standing ease, I’ve heard (5) 14. County theatre hosts politician and one constituen­t (9) 15. Clergyman’s list of works (5) 16. Only dishearten­ed men can be serious (6) 18. Move money around company, exhibiting thrift (7) 20. Insect maturing and going off? Primarily, yes (5) 21. Doctor interrupti­ng chairman’s dance (5) 25. Some light fish (3)

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