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12 Applicant for a post (9) 14 Looking for things to buy (8) 15 Single part (4) 16 Hairdressing establishment (5) 19 Cuddle (7) 20 Vaulted passage or entrance (7) 21 Perform (3) 22 Worry intensely (7) 23 Plain, open (5) 25 Singular, original (3-3) 27 Colour of the cue ball in snooker (5) 29 Having a number of uses (9) 34 Ensuing (9) 36 Now broadcasting (2,3) 37 Very unpleasant (4) 38 Hard area of skin (6) 41 Daze, trance (6) 43 Stratified (7) 45 Loaf around (4) 46 Exclude, leave out (4) 47 Crush with a sharp blow (4) 49 Around (5) 51 Brutal person (5) 53 With much hard work (9) 55 Knocks back (5) 60 Necessitate (6) 62 Covered chair carried on poles (5) 63 Speed (5) 65 Boxing category (9) 67 Long-bodied vehicle (6,3) 69 Evocative of a style from the past (5) 70 Colander (5) 72 Get (6) 73 Very easy task (5) 75 Places of ill repute? (9) 77 Come into flower (5) 78 Groom’s partner (5) 83 Stamp in your passport allowing you to enter a country (4) 85 Counterfeit (4) 86 Teller of fibs (4) 88 Submarine’s underwater missile (7) 90 Tempt, inveigle (6) 92 Aplenty, abundant (6) 93 Slight mark or cut (4) 94 Model (of perfection) (5) 95 Concubine (9) 98 Skilful (9) 100 Defiant person (5) 102 Dwell, live (6) 104 Machine which makes holes (5) 108 Part-payment in advance (7) 110 Expected, scheduled (3) 111 Early American settler with a strict religious code (7) 113 Crèche (7) 115 Synthetic silk (5) 116 Entrance lobby (4) 117 Freedom from injurious consequences (8) 118 Disinclined, unwilling (9)
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1 Bottom of a shoe (4) 2 Delicate part of a
flower (5) 3 Belittle (6) 4 Trendy (4) 5 Gelatinous egg mass (5) 6 Urban settlement (4) 7 Filled with
consternation (6) 8 Blowy (5) 9 Robbers at sea (7) 10 Traditional Hindu dress (4) 11 Succeed (2,4) 13 Town’s outskirts (7) 17 Skirt-like beach
garment (6) 18 Unremitting (8) 24 Reality (6) 26 Ground grain for
cooking (5) 28 Sprinter who must leap
obstacles (7) 30 Yarns, stories (5) 31 Vague moving object (4) 32 Useful (5) 33 Pelt (3) 35 Slothful (4) 37 Brimless hat with a tassel (3) 39 Tarnish (5) 40 Member of a workforce (8) 42 Watering hole (3) 44 Harvest (5) 48 Short burst of breath (4) 50 Bring into line with current trends (6) 52 Warm sheltered area (7) 54 Household tool (7) 56 Should (5) 57 Give way (4) 58 Take ___, Mark Owen’s band (4) 59 Diversion (6) 61 Space under a roof (5) 62 Of a similar kind (8) 64 Work hard over a period of time (4) 66 Work very hard (4) 68 Trick, artifice (4) 71 Abscond with a view to marriage (5) 74 Birthday-cake topping (5) 76 Rotary engine (7) 79 Carried out (3) 80 Alloy mainly comprising iron and carbon (5) 81 Cheese-like vegetarian foodstuff (4) 82 Pretty (view) (6) 84 Distribute in portions (5) 85 Potential blaze? (4,4) 87 Liquid pigment used in correspondence (3) 89 Country’s leader (5) 90 Land for building on (4) 91 Bird of which ‘coal’ and ‘blue’ are types (3) 95 Outer cover (tyre) (6) 96 Person at school or college (7) 97 Brush’s cleaning counterpart (7) 99 Cause affection (6) 101 Blinking face part! (6) 103 Small horse-like animal (6) 105 Mature (5) 106 Turn into powder (5) 107 Feeling honoured (5) 109 Table-top game (4) 111 Conduit (4) 112 Archbishop Desmond ___, South African statesman (4) 114 Sharp pull (4)