18/05/2020
Across: 7 Adonis; 8 Capers; 10 Manager; 11 Tapir; 12 Seer; 13 Admit; 17 Dense; 18 Neon; 22 Ideal; 23 Ascribe; 24 Ascend; 25 Magnet.
Down: 1 Palmist; 2 Pointer; 3 Rings; 4 Captain; 5 Reaps; 6 Usury; 9 Tradesman; 14 Telling; 15 Resigns; 16 In depth; 19 Tidal; 20 Perch; 21 Scrap.
ACROSS
See 20 Down
Board to make progress (3,2)
In Montreal I encountered a stranger (5)
10. Describing whitish stone work near a railway track (7)
12. Section of the hospital set aside for rankers? (7,4)
14. Produce an account of what detonators do (4,1,6)
18. Gain some qualification and faint! (4,3)
19. You’ll need southern hardwood for this joint (5)
21. Remains he put in a vessel (5)
22. What the chisellers do in an adaption of the Avenger (7)
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ACROSS
4. See the world (6)
7. South African city (8)
8. Swoop (6)
10. Subside (5)
13. Be concerned (4)
14. Military cap (4)
15. Coarse file (4)
16. Secret agent (3)
17. Lout (4)
19. Owl’s cry (4)
21. Wrongdoer, villain (9)
23. Hotness (4)
24. Taverns (4)
26. Lair (3)
27. Told fibs (4)
29. Heinous (4)
32. Untidy state (4)
33. Not fresh (5)
34. Colliers (6)
35. Brolly (8)
36. Blurred mark (6)
DOWN
1. See 3 Down
2. Come on stage as a lord, we hear (6)
3 & 1Dn. Batteries found in centrally heated prisons! (3-5)
In the stream you’ll see the Spanish chap (6) Woodworkers who become members? (7) It records what people think of one who is late (7)
11. Should already have settled but late arriving (7)
13. A male is quite upset by ill feeling (7)
15. After the end of wintertime a garden flower festival (6)
16. With a bit of regret I resolved to withdraw (6)
17. Anxiety about the first of vertebrae – operate on the joint (5)
20 & 6Ac. Hosts seen behind
bars (10) 4. 5. 8.
DOWN
1. Talk (5)
2. Summarise (5)
3. Golfer’s warning (4)
4. Spanish snacks (5)
5. Fever (4)
6. Other than (6)
9. Child without parents (6)
11. Insect (3)
12. Shinbone (5)
13. Totes (7)
15. Legendary bird (3)
16. Chronic drunkard (3)
18. Stableman (6)
20. Beginning (5)
21. Blokes (3)
22. Finish (3)
23. Balloon gas (6)
25. Afflict (3)
28. Edition (5)
30. Crypt (5)
31. Lawful (5)
32. Repair (4)
33. Kind (4)