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1 2 Get a loan from George (6) A singular thing to ride (8) Darted around doing business? (6)

Good food and drink will always buck you up (5) Something you require when heartlessly nettled (4) Like the prophesies of Mother Shipton (4)

It’s not this that’s so emphatic! (4) Managed to get two points out of nothing! (3)

The place for a dog? (4) Name just one vehicle (4) Tiny fragments of piano pieces (9)

To dad, the old tax system (4)

Just one is not very electrifying (4)

Spiteful woman perhaps said to be after Bob (3) Something to do with gum (4)

In America, generally, it’s barred (4)

Some of the sloppiest food? (4)

Flocks said to be seen in gardens (5)

In port, perhaps, an American writer (6)

For something to eat, see the next page (8) Tempestuous tale about James Bond’s boss (6)

The kiddies may think him a knockout! (5)

One immersed in the part of ‘Sir Bedivere’? (5) 3 4

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16 18 20 21 You can expect one to change colour often (4) A climber, being a sort of nut (5)

Take in interpretive view (4) You’ve never seen this king with a tattered robe on (6) Provide what’s lacking when the referee gets sick (6) Cough, and pass me up a letter (3)

Can you get shot for writing one? (5)

The indigenous people’s reduced alternatives (7) At the end of August, the house is overheated (3) Lived in Iowa somewhere (3) Abstract, in a sense (6) Figure to draw a plant (5) Of Irish butter? (3) 22 23 25 28

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32 33 A female to subdue? (3) It has a repetitive cry (6) Gregory’s own self (3) Is she the wrong side of forty? (5)

Quick to adjust a veil (5) Bring to bear on a former royal titular head (5) Turn up with a growl, yet seem pleased (4)

A mug’s drink, largely? (4) ACROSS: 1. Not yet 7. Rush-more 8. Tu-tu 10. Pratie 11. Sprite 14. The (M-e-d) 16. Tunes 17. Roes 23. Sled 26. S-ever 28. Wee 29. Tr-end-y 30. Palace 31. O-X-en 32. In-St.ruct 33. Satins.

1. Nipper 2. Y-out-hs 3. T-R-ue 4. Chapter 5. Robin 6. Me-Des 8. Tate 9. Tie 12. Run 13. Terse 15. Joker

20. M-e-d 21. Borders 22. Be-n 23. Select 24. Lean 25. Dreams 26. Sta-I-n 27. Verse 28. Wax 30. Pots. 19. Wo-me-n 21. Baker 22. B-Ored 18. Order 19. War