CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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DOWN
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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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23 Twists and the cotton’s snarled: caught right inside (8) Confused, put another pound in (6)
Miss the ride the rest went off on (8)
Start eagerly but find you can go no further (3,5,2)
There are songs, now, and dances about (7)
With weight, he disputes it (6) Standing about and outdoing when it comes to eating (7) The twin went off with it, the dope! (6)
Gather it’s an admission that one is a fool (5)
It doesn’t weaken the tree (3) Just what I need! Lunchtime traffic (5)
A small tick (6) 25 26 27 30 31
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35 36 37 Why the charmer’s secrets were secrets no more? (5,5) Reported I had got in, in need of a lift (3)
Make for the gun in the coloured holster(7)
The foreigners sue the interned Scandinavians (8) Photographing the execution (8)
Determining, on meeting (8) Fights to get the breaks one’s putinfor(7)
Nip back, love, to get the material (6)
Comes upon unexpectedly when one lands (6) Without the other, has gone off to somewhere in the U.S. (6) ACROSS: 1. Scrap 6. Fancy 9. Bifocal 10. Ar-son 11. Car-Ry. 12. Herts 13. T-er-rier 15. Cop 17. A-wed 18. Potato
20. Nougat 22. Fist 24. Tut 25. Assizes 26. Bible 27. Oct-et 28. CI-te-D 29. Take out 30. Us-ual 31. Pe-t-er
2. Cur-Lew 3. A-board 4. Pin 5. Tower 6. Faction 7. A-las 8. Carrot 12. He-lot 13. ‘Tain’t 14. R-eb-ut
18. Posse 19. Capital 21. Ounces 22. Fin-it-e 23. S-erene 25. Alder 26. Bet-a 28. C-up
EASY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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15 17 18 20 21 24 26 Still applies if the grip’s OK (5,4) Worried, agrees to put in an addendum, as one forecasts (8) The gentleman and I brought her back (4)
See turning in the gun that was misappropriated (6)
The small, older one on the inside is in the army (7) Noticing the traffic has been stopped, cross (6,3) Shouted to the daughter held captive below (9)
What is forcing the rain through the shades? (7)
Lash out when you get luck as a prospector(6)
Bearing with the people I admitted (4) Compensating for, by toadying to (6,2)
The guard has been posted: Neil Turner(8)
Was less low, due to the wine (4) Stopped its use in the home (6) Shouts and storms (7) Unhappy, urge into action (9) Kept guard at the window while one searched for (6,3) Heading is: “Top player gets into Trouble”(7)
Deny once having carried a gun (6)
Are reps and a disappointment (4)
Inaccuracies, I bet, in the writing (8)
Moderates but doesn’t, perhaps, admit to (5,4)
Do you sever all links with it? (5,3) Aspot,yousay,offood(6)
Fruit (9) Docile (8) Defence feature (4)
Hit (6) Geometric shape (7)
Need for action (9) Hormone (9) Building (7) Earthquake (6) Lack (4)
Set of letters (8) Inclination (8)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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Eastern European (4)
Vinegar acid (6) Fit of anger (7) Paying fare (9) Tower of London guard (9) Rank of the nobility (7)
Feline (6) Gastropod mollusc (4) Notorious (8) Poisonous fungus (9)
DOWN
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19 20 Headlong rush of cattle (8)
Hire (6) Length (8) Pulchritude (6) Furniture item (8) Hot dried berry (10) Lively (7) Tooth covering (6) Peculiarity (7) Japanese female companion (6) Lazy person (5) Rubbish (3) ACROSS: 1. Trust 6. Punch 9. Caravan 10. Clean 11. Rigid 12. Resat 13. Several 15. Beg 17. Isis
22. Aide 24. Eat 25. Saddles 26. Spent 27. Rival 28. Bitch 29. Lexicon 30. Shots 31. Agent
2. Relies 3. Scales 4. Tan 5. Gavel 6. Parable 7. Unit 8. Crimes 12. Radar 13. Sidle 14. Visit
19. Temples 21. Oafish 22. Adding 23. Deacon 25. Snail 26. Salt 28. Boa 22 23
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31 32 33 35 36 37 18. Please 19. Table 20. Loiter 15. Basil 19. Colo-N 15. Cad-iz Bring upon oneself (5) Spiritualist’s meeting (6)
Board game (10) Spasm (3) Plug (7) Herbivorous reptile (8) Abstinent (8) Tropical flower (8) Expressionless (7) Muscular (6) Respiration (6) Animal fat (6) 16. Genes 16. Poets 18. Pleat