CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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32 33 1 2 3 4 5 To do this in, presumably requires brawn (6) Queenly station (8) Valley of the Daleks (4)

It can give a student a start (6)

It’s axiomatic that a run can’t be finished in swirling mist (6)

Copy a piano key (3) Around the weekend, disturb one’s rest to make journeys (5) Slippery, but they can be trapped (4) Botanically, the most unusual palm on earth? (5) Fur for sale outside the Boar’s Head (5) Prickly girl? (5)

Make double (in sheep farming?) (4)

Material yielding a turnover when mined? (5)

Old saying of a cutting nature (3)

One takes it to heart (6) A union worker (6) Larger birds displacing half the swallows (4) Heady associates of kind hearts (8) Rendered invisible! (6)

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A Miss by Agatha Christie (6)

Many chaps are out to be top performers (6) Invariably somewhat severe? (4)

How nasty rattles can frighten one (7)

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20 21 22 23 fifty quid (5)

In the country, business with noisy members (5)

Laid up with a nasty face! (4)

As a soldier, he wasn’t windy (3)

Water in a tureen (3) Bonehead! (5)

Send a couple of letters by taxi (5)

Not drunk (5)

Little chap the French might see as bad (3)

Work at the trade of laminating wood? (3) Anybody with a broken nose, possessing love for me (7) Badly affected by success (3)

Fatheaded Delia foolishly 24 25

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Badly sown, one must confess (4)

Put in the shade, perhaps (6)

The equitable way to go (5) As an ingredient of gunpowder, can be a bit disconcerting (5)

So woolly headed, this female! (3)

Tease a small boy (4)