CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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37 38 1 It’s eaten at any time after one (5)

It’s fun wrestling with one’s peers (5)

One with degrees in geometry? (5)

Deserter from the artillery for a short time (3)

Sell for a bigheaded allrounder (5)

Aid to viewing a singular spectacle? (7) Achieve promotion in the outfit (5)

Turn about, as a crosscountry runner (3) Refer to everything due to change (6)

Hurry to sink the ship (7) Has to be old-fashioned (4) He again is with us (4) Relegated due to a test, indeed! (7)

Agent for a noisy Thespian (6)

A degree of cowardice in fighting (3) Receives an edition of Keats (5)

Payment I posted in error (7) Singular thing to shoot in a canoe (5) Nominally a piano piece (3) Children, it seems, are no good to you (5)

If not resting, he pretends (5)

Suitable number for a small flat (5)

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Youngster providing the school head with grub (5) 2 4 5 6 7

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17 19 Make small – albeit graphic – improvements (7)

Are about a hundred in the field (4)

Confused tale about a bit of danger (6)

In London, a nurse’s station? (5)

It can put you in the shade (5)

Managed to be dashing? (3) The drivel there may be at the Boar’s Head, Leatherhead (7)

See unfit fruit in the vineyard (3)

Made the engine sound good (5)

Keeps changing pets (5) Permitted everyone to be a 20

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32 33 creditor (7)

In a mine, the hush at the rear (5)

Put up with punishment (5) Bravery that can lead to a hi-score (7)

The right medicine for a female about to go droopy (6)

A screwy faucet? (3) He turned up with a letter for Nora (5)

Birds half the winter at the poles (5) Youngster’s bit of work for the ministry (5)

Eat with Enid (4)

Took a seat for a conversation piece (3)