CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Those taken to destroy pests? (5)

Many an article is flexible (5) River of wine! (5)

It’s Scottish for the present (3)

Contradict most beliefs (5) Continue to make a fuss about old films (5,2) Employee whose tax included a pound note? (5) What the wheatear has to drink (3)

I’d feel wrong, getting out of line (6)

Go back and try another cure (7)

Den left to dry out (4) Inclination to cheat at bagatelle (4)

24 Tardy getting into bed (7) 26 One making a drink in a part broken jug? (6)

Far from private information! (3)

But she will keep quiet for some reward! (5) Income of the sort of writers I get on with (7)

Kept from being unhappy about a historic day (5) In general, it takes a long time (3)

A calculating creature? (5) Uncle finishes a bit of work in the sedentary line (5) Fishing films? (5)

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The last of the matches (5) At the bitter end, throes can be briefer (7) 4

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20 21 The National Front, at the time in question (4) Quietly fix the hedge? (6) That corny bunch down on the farm (5)

Tube station guardian? (5) It’s prominent at the quayside in Devon (3)

He’s given meals or bread, possibly (7)

Still the old-fashioned tango (3)

Angry girl hiding in cover (5) The decimated part? (5) Being in poor condition, the old mare showed her years (7)

Golfers’ cards? (5)

Free half of beer for the chap 23 24

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32 33 in the saddle (5)

How to show the strain at a dramatic moment (7) Live somewhere in Herts, but watch out! (6)

A number of kittens (3) She gets Dora upset and out of breath (5)

Water streaming from cracked ewers (5)

Such old jokes may get a frosty reception (5) Murphy’s jacket (4) Heat from the fire (3)