CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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DOWN
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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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20 22 A cheap cut? (4)
The last thing said is “We’re tumbling in an avalanche” (8)
Writes back first from a boarding house (7) Calling on, for the next bout (6,5)
Do patients, mending, love one being brought in by visitors? (10)
Asked to make an offer for the home (6)
A shopkeeper with whom no secret is safe? (8)
Land upright and turn (5) A “22” and a really good one (7)
Brought back, for the clergyman, one pound of meat (5) Somebody snapping the ACROSS: 1. Stars 6. Lemu-r 9. Opt-I-mum 10. Savoy 11. C-inch 12. St-a-ir 13. S-event-h 15. Sad 17. Trod 18. N-Eva-Da Fi-ck-le 22. C-ops. 24. Fo-E 25. Shortly 26. ’T-aint 27. Pi-lot 28. Wigan 29. Nemesis 30. Fe-t-ed 31. Ne-W-ts
2. Tracer 3. Roo-Ted 4. Spy 5. Fifth 6. Lucifer 7. Emir 8. Unclad 12. Stol-e 13. (Ma)Stiff 14. V-O-ice 15. Sabot
18. Night 19. B-loat-ed 21. Iodine 22. Cruise 23. Pl-I-ant 25. SN-e’er 26. Tone 28. Win
EASY CROSSWORD scheme (8,9) In short supply (6) Talon (4)
Skill (7) Unsophisticated (8) Disparaging (10) Omit (4) Meantime (7) Essential character (6)
Wall painting (6) Poem (3) Cloudy (8)
ACROSS
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14 15 17 18 19 21 24 One went into show business many, many years ago (5,3)
Overheard the figure (3) Show it’s duck meat (6) Try to get sun and plenty of it (6)
Give one a posting to headquarters (7)
For wood, it’s a bargain! (4) Enquired into, when one left the hotel (7,3)
Does it have a lot to learn about being a pest? (8) Gives one the job of getting the particulars? (7) She’s a c-cat! (4)
The jacket with the label going to a Dr Turner (6) Seizing the opportunity for imposing on one’s good nature (6,9,2)
If you say it’s pretty, will it snap back “Phooey”? (6) Get cheques in the post? (4) Wonderful workers in a bottling factory? (7) Sticking together, which is understandable (8) What you were baking when the oven fused? (10) Prompt the star (4) Made out the sow had been let loose in the fields (7) Saves from the mobs, it is stated (6)
Trees not found in the mountains, we’re told (6) You know him (3)
Says it isn’t on, anyhow, to me (8)
Thefondnessyouhavefor someone you’re stuck on? (10) Deserted (8) Beverage (3) Fairness (6) Noiseless (6) Painter’s mixing board (7) Slippery fish (4) Bad dreams (10) Appraise (8) Imperfection (7) Wound mark (4) Three times (6) State social-security
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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DOWN
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10 16 Antibiotic drug (10)
Bird of peace (4) Hobbies (8)
Big cat (7) Soldier’s ordinary uniform (11) Patron (10) Desk (6) Muscular or active (8)
Stories (5) Rodent (7) ACROSS: 1. Large 6. Sauce 9. Recover 10. Medal 11. River 12. Lurid 13. Curtail 15. Pit 17. Lees Erse 24. Hut 25. Portent 26. Lenin 27. Recur 28. Viper 29. Demonic 30. Ingot 31. Aster
2. Avenue 3. Grants 4. Eel 5. Mogul 6. Serious 7. Arid 8. Credit 12. Livid 13. Clash
19. Leveret 21. Tureen 22. Ethics 23. Sneeze 25. Pivot 26. Ludo 28. Via 18. Mutate 14. Resat 19. Likes 20. Stared 22. 15. Padre 16. Da-is-y 16. Tenet 19. Blair 20. 18. Melon