CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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4 Prattles about pharmaceutical places at Birkenhead (5) Distance down to Department H (5) Came down again in a certain capacity (5) It’s just too good for the golfing Colonel (3) Blue-blooded blokes (5) Chivalrous champion of a chap in pain (7) Miranda Monkhouse’s boy (5) If possible, good fruit (3) A word to open with (6) Relatively interesting news about some zephyrs (7) Was about to finish duty by all means (4) Heiress’s land (4) Flight path (7) Kept a drunken sot looking embarrassed (6) Recidivist con man? (3) Sweet sort of blonde (5) It’s cooked in ovens (7) Swore Victor was in debt (5) It quite alters one’s meaning (3) Started to appeal for some funds (5) As used in making babies? (5) Prepare a letter for a woman (5)

DOWN

Compensate for a pear being bad at the very end (5) The RAF possibly sets out to organise them (7) Look upon as a simpleton (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

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20 21 Keen types from Sheffield? (6) He makes sails (5) A racy sort of utterance (5) Piano man’s mate (3) Corrected error in the grid (7) On the quiet, many take the plunge (3) A girl to spoil, that is (5) A definite (yet indefinite!) refusal (5) In the untamed wilds, the French drank freely (7) Fashionable sound (5) Thread that only breaks when one of the ends is missing (5) Motors seen erroneously to contain spirit (7)