CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chuck, it seems, is of doubtful worth! (5)

Begin jumpily? (5)

The cultivar planted just to be different? (7)

Like a novice on the golf course (5)

Fast, like the one-step (5) Where Americans can manage without crashing cars (5)

Handy error in school? (7) It’s in Belgium, also in Spain (3)

Foreign part of Czechoslovakia (4)

Used one’s head with striking effect (6)

That little extra that makes the star higher (3-2) 20 Where Scandinavians point various needs out (6) Countenance a false start by the winner (4) Domestically useful piece of gutta-percha (3)

Is starting school a bit of a lark for one? (7)

Did she come out in a rash? (5)

Food one could bake for a bighead? (5)

He may well strike while the iron’s hot (5)

Where, anciently, silly Lily had an air of backwardness? (7)

Separated from Sadie (5) It can make a smooth takeoff (5)

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DOWN

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Tweedy fellow? (6) Exaggerate the six deliveries 4 5 6 7 8

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15 16 18 one has to make? (6) Points out an article that’s weak (3)

Last portion of fish, a tail end (5)

Do such comedians never die? (7)

The kind that’s less than forty pesos (4)

Noted price change of interest to cooks (6)

Wine man holding firm (5) A bit wet (5)

You could fall into a deep one (5)

Nick takes tea in South Leatherhead (5)

It could give you something extra poisonous (5)

The whole crew may be bananas! (5)