Gulf News

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

4 Broadcasti­ng music out of love? (6)

7 Warning that comes with a new coat (3,5)

8 Does he start batting cannily? (6)

10 One’s own little drug-store (5)

13 Low, initially depressed state of mind (4)

14 He’s on record as providing service (4)

15 Paper boy? (4)

16 Be good at getting something for nothing? (3)

17 Where to egg the Surrey team on (4)

19 Praise a youth about to start up (4)

21 Unending advice not to jump about so much (9)

23 Occupied with being generous? (4)

24 Rave about a red-headed six-footer? (4)

26 Father figure nowadays (3)

27 Work group given some reward by the company head (4)

29 There are black pupils in them (4)

32 Provided money for one to be in a home (4)

33 Having a bit of grub to eat is fine (5)

34 They may intercede between friends and countrymen (6)

35 A bounder in court? (8)

36 A knotty old dear (6)

DOWN

1 It’s smart to suggest the southwest is the centre of fashion (5)

2 Plagiarise tales? (5)

3 The money Charlie has changed (4)

4 Supporter not actually backing you up (5)

5 We edit it out as something unwanted (4)

6 Wanted partly to atone for a bad deed (6)

9 Organic flower fertiliser (6)

11 Dried leaves (3)

12 It rotates, forming loops (5) 13 She’s no serious revolution­ary (7)

15 Exclude the big-headed one (3)

16 Subscripti­on raised for a people carrier (3)

18 Figure to turn left and see an imagined planet (6)

20 Are staggering around the street making a bloomer (5)

21 Come out in the garden, friend! (3)

22 Walk most of the way back, as a rule (3)

23 Prefer a boundary around a civic centre (6)

25 Grassy part of an arable area (3)

28 To start riding something very high is dodgy (5)

30 Listeners, having started young, have plenty of time (5)

31 Put up with being a straphange­r (5)

32 Leave with uncle (4)

33 Have such dancers twice the energy? (2-2)

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