YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 9. Loose cash 10. O-rations 12. DA-is 13. Char-t-s 14. Leat-he-r 15. Ash blonde 17. Due-llist-s 18. Strives 20. Strain 21. Open 24. Passable 26. Me-dioc-re 28. Rate 29. Timber 31. Retreat 34. D-ishonest 36. As a result 38. Cur-ator 39. Reckon 40. Blue

41. Per-ilo-us 42. Speculate.

1. Glad rags 2. Polish 3. Lashings 4. Charge 5. Consider 6. Fall behind 7. F-inal-ly 8. Inches 11. Present 16. La-VI-sh

19. Roast 20. S-he 22. Purse 23. Bottle 25. Boiler room 26. Mar(s) 27. P-rod-uce 30. But-tress 31. Re-as-one-d 32. Te-the-red

33. Conta-I-n 35. Served 36. A/c-cost 37. Unload.

EASY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Assumed name (5) Seraglio (5) Alcoholic drink (5) Use a spade (3) Redecorate, informally (2,3) Respects highly (7) Friends (5) Offer (3) Scold harshly (6) Egg white (7) Actor’s part (4)

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Yield (4) Lockjaw (7) Maltreats (6) Hill (3) Fiend (5) Disturb, disorder (7) Readily understood, clear (5) Golf peg (3) Lowest point (5) Drinks quickly (5) End of life (5)

DOWN

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7 9 12 14 16 Container for tea (5) Readable (7) Asian republic (4) Insight (6) Indian instrument (5) Brimless cap (5) Raised edge (3) Infers (7) Chest bone (3) Accepts (5)