CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Regarding the condition of, exaggerate (9)

Plus I’m travelling in one without having planned to (2,7)

Just for show (4) Renounce, when you surrender (4,2)

Having us dress when the siren goes off. It’s early (7) Not wanting to let a cult move in to occupy it (9) He’s responsible for the dispossession (9)

The attack and capture of (7) The woman who got the hat squashed by a case (6) See the star turn (4) Calm once they had got themselves together (9) 25 Mad that one had authenticated it? (9)

Nick, for instance, is a man’s name (4)

Happy to shade again. It was too bright (6)

Have the lady report on the whole thing (7)

Yellow roses are not (9) Totally democratic, as schools never are (9)

The insects are let loose among other insects (7) There are rules for determining just what it is (6)

A girl few have time for (4) The greatest circulators of banknotes will do so (9) Maybe getting a char, lashing out when in the money! (9) 10

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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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19 21 The murderer in the soap? (6,6)

With the rain pouring, forced to go outside and get soaked (8)

Not bad with clothes on (6) The full fifty enter to take part in (8)

Rush to get a drink - and a humdinger it is! (10) Taking pains to cook the child healthy food (7)

Like the household name who made whoopee? (10) Many songs. “Home on the Range” is one of them (5) They are why there’s a U in “luggage” (6)

The sun now is low (3)

To a soldier, denotes unearned income (7,5) 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 33 34 Many are different when the tail’s docked (6) Happens when the ship changes course (5,5) What Marks and Spencer did when they got together? (6,4)

Fish do get caught by rising (3)

Set about, therefore, getting an instrument (8) Splashes the fighters with? (8)

Try to eradicate the smears from the material (8) Say in your case you have nothing to hide (7)

The clumsy article about prison is returned (5) Stick a coin in to get something to eat (6) ACROSS: 1. Screw 6. Ditch 9. Jet-ties 10. S-we-et 11. Slink 12. Ernie 13. Battery 15. V-I’m 17. On-US 18. D-E-cide

20. Grilse 22. Safe 24. Hip 25. Simp-L-er 26. Gi-VE-n 27. Sugar 28. Grade 29. Give out 30. Clean 31. Nair-n

2. Cowman 3. Ejects 4. We-t 5. Story 6. Desiree 7. Isle 8. Can-did 12. Er-O-de 13. Bough 14. Tulip 15. Vital

18. Dr-ain 19. Aspirin(-g) 21. Ritual 22. S-part-A 23. Fender 25. S-e-ven 26. Gag-a 28. G-’un

EASY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Says it’s true about the business studies (8)

Uneven (9) Alternatively (9) Sharpen (4) Sparing (6) Pasta dish (7) Authorisation (9) Affirmed (9) Savoury (7) Representatives (6)

Stylish (4) Unruly (9) Large church (9) Resonation (4)

FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

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Revolting (6) Conceited person, informally (7) Reprove (9) Cooking utensils (9)

Reap (7)

Root vegetable (6) Jacob’s twin brother (4) Hospital doctor (9) Mementoes (9)

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Bedtime drink (8) 2 3

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7 8 11 16 19 21 22 Soft drink (6,6) Woodwind instrument (8) Czech capital (6) Buckle (8) Temperaturecontroller (10) Foretaste (7) Publication (10) Golf clubs (5) Responds (6) Donkey (3) Equestrian skill (12) Scarcely sufficient (6) ACROSS: 1. Gnome 6. Cobra 9. Angular 10. Spend 11. Pecan 12. Cents 13. Reveals 15. Wet 17. Ewer 18. Binary

20. Eleven 22. Mere 24. Rid 25. Safaris 26. Vital 27. Mimic 28. Final 29. Caravan 30. Ashen 31. Ready

2. Nephew 3. Manner 4. End 5. Mutes 6. Captain 7. Ores 8. Reader 12. Clean 13. Refer 14. Vexed

18. Banal 19. Pelican 21. Limits 22. Marine 23. Ribald 25. Salad 26. Vice 28. Far 19. Ado-re 19. Pagan 15. Wafer 16. Meter 16. Tyres