CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 It’s exciting to have a drink with one (5) Admitted having been bought? (5) Seamen possibly love to forgive (7)

The place for fencing may be on the ski slopes (5) Composer of ‘The Spanish Rag’? (5)

Pumping centre (5)

One whose parliamentary seat is free? (7)

Cry of a part-time worker (3)

She’ll finish up out of iodine (4)

A piano on hire will suit (6) Wrongly take to be a form of slate (5)

20 A letter to declare one’s property (6)

Eating his, could make a fathead sick (4)

Let’s suppose aunt is robbed of £50 (3)

Cuts round the bend in certain channels (7) Erotic, perhaps, but not without taste (5) Something to hang on to? (5)

Vehicle to buy, horse included (5) Student, initially one having a job (7)

Possibly dead at the end of the world, furthermore (5) Would he attempt to embrace H.M.? (5) 6 9 10 11

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It’s sweet, but less than elevating (6) 3 4 5 6 7 8 12

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15 16 Tangled with a couple of guys (6)

Holding a CD, he’d be perfectly in order (3)

No part of a travelogue is fiction (5)

The general, of course, is everybody’s superior (7) Part of a shoe left in the rain (4)

A steel product that stimulates! (6)

In which one eats rashly at a hotel? (5)

We get Les out of town (5) After a bit, some duty becomes discontinuous (5) It’s wonderful how master Joe gets the car to start (5) An author’s deep sources? (5)