The Citizen (Gauteng)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Mounted display in grassed ground about middle of arena (8) 5. Smoke that surrounds the sun (6) 9. Marine creature moves ashore in southeast (8) 10. Look, university fellow appears in this novel (6) 12. Ceremony OK on radio (4) 13. Get a trained goalie as key person? (10) 15. How chess opponents are described in print (5,3,5) 19. Pity clearing trees involves small charge (6,7) 23. Unproducti­ve unit holding scruffy fur nearly full (10) 25. Blackberry? Yes and no (4) 28. Eat for fun, by the sound of it (6) 29. Term a POW invented for parasite (8)

30. Write music number beside gallery (6) 31. One model played accordion (8) Down

1. Leave course, dishearten­ed (6) 2. Praise former officer controllin­g area (5) 3. Wastrel gambols about, ignoring ‘Good Morning’ (4) 4. Government query about mother’s respirator (3,4) 6. Brownish sample taken from loch reeked (5) 7. Children bound to follow old fellows (9) 8. Private eye probes a sign: ‘Combs made here’ (8) 11. Some make enemies bitter (4) 14. Heartless greeting, like 5 perhaps (4) 15. Full cast enters bay for gory spectacle (9) 16. Card hole-in-one (3) 17. Stand by comedian suppressin­g article (4) 18. Outburst of sound rising, swamping very loud Unionist (8) 20. Female swallowed up dairy product (4) 21. Rival Australian denizen recently departed (7) 22. Lecture boy about Exchange Rate Mechanism (6) 24. Bug university group, keeping quiet (5) 26. Free rounds in London centre of learning (5) 27. Nothing to be found in boozer occasional­ly (4)

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