CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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3 It’s nice and warm, for a change, in Ealing (6) Such work may seem too much for a while (8)

Join to get the club promoted (4,2)

He’s funny, as many will admit (5)

Dash off to fix things (4) To me, a little house (4) We’re out to get in for a drink (4)

Favourite part of Peterborough (3)

The opposite of hen, in a sense (4)

It’s useless putting one in a truck i(4)

The chap to flatter, perhaps, but it must be sincere (9) It’s of growing potential (4) Current charge? (4) Female of the cassowary (3) Regarded as a bit of a key man (4)

State definitely it’s the little turning on the right (4) Run away and shelter at the welfare centre (4) Spring gave heart to the Pharisees (5)

Where, abroad, Alma got mixed up with some Yanks (6)

Where the wealthy go on most Mondays (8)

Be a close thing! (6)

Affect just a little (5) An oven faulty at the bottom end will do you no good! (5)

Knock out with a snooker 15 16 18 cue? (4)

Be progressively friendly (3,2)

Practised without weakening (4)

Some faculty men have; call it insight (6)

A team of two, as the Romans would have figured? (6)

Like the setting sun, if you look west (3)

River flowing into a sewer? (5)

It’s largely known as Wellingtonia (3,4)

In attrition, perhaps, endlessly wary (3)

After a poor start, it may yield coal (3)

Wildly contradicted (6)