CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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32 33 1 2 3 4 The opening where you turn for the town centre (6) Be slow to show abhorrence about fancy ties (8) Sounds like the total, but isn’t (4)

Point to a chap called Jack (6)

Did one’s best to influence voters (6)

Tolerate with constraint (3) Reach maturity and readiness to scoff? (5)

Born on the first of December, in poverty (4)

Form of darts one is lucky to play (5)

I leave oil on her car (5) Glutted with dates (5) Many a politician is a bit wet (4)

Quoted by some —tec’ in the CID (5)

Just the man to make hay? (3)

At a broken date, he gets angry (6)

A plant in the form of a glove (6)

A cat can mean very little (4)

Handy restrictions (8) Priest making a name in a high place (6)

DOWN

The row brewing over foreign currency won’t improve things (6)

Fated to work on a new Dome! (6)

Time to arrest the flow of drink, say (4)

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21 to the Australians’ heart (7) New — soap’ about the heart of England (historic Shropshire) (5)

Very young to be so loveless still (5)

Goods are offered for it (4) It’s of some material, possibly protective (3)

The right I had to be free (3) It will do you no good to move mistakenly out of neutral (5)

Scatter food outright! (5) He gives noted service, that is (5)

Rested on the bottom (3) Nominally the part of Aphrodite (3)

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28 30 sentence? (7) Prepare for action (e.g., some mousetraps) (3) Apply some term to the wild dove (6)

But you would know him from Eve! (4)

Would he have arrested a stripper? (6)

Is he silly to start climbing on a camel’s back? (5) Infection making a tint possibly visible (5)

Drink, child (3)

Keep going to the end of the queue (4)