CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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41 42 Make yourself scarce when there’s a closing-down sale? (5-3)

A coin and a note I inserted for something to eat (3) Began with “Need to go out to work” (6)

Is furious and sorts out the many captured (6) Developing an extraordinary odour (7)

Bit, through it, a hole (4) Give food to and prepare a berth in – a soft berth (7,3) Badly need to get hold of a list of the registered (8) Fixes again, taking two twos? (7)

After returning, sir, he will have something to eat (4) Have a stab at, getting the gist of it (6)

Used the door, not the window, as a means of escape? (4,3,4,3,3)

The man I had gone off about (6)

Being thin is great (4)

The spear I jammed right in with the other weapons (7) Is making headway with the romantic overtures (8) In general, it’s one of a pair (10)

Encourages to have a cooked breakfast? (4)

Seems it’s because the paper inside is crumpled (7) Require that the net spread out be good and large (6) Round about teatime, need to go out to get food (6) Retiring from the cast (3) Having once been a carer,

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Regards as champions, without exception (3,3,4) The light could be better (4) Give up when there’s a much worse outbreak in (8)

Be in readiness to take up the cudgels for (5,2) Neither look down nor up to, you agree (3,3,2,3)

No matter, I scribbled a note to enclose with the plant (10) No traffic about. Back in (6) Work more when uneasy? (8) Purported to be, when one popped the question (5) What you won’t find in a beer garden? (3,4)

Wake in a vehicle (5)