WEE THINKER
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Down
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Your contemporaries in the House of Lords? (4,5) Some recipient gets baked dish (3) Hearing again about twisting trail (7) Stupidly lied about hot Indian city (5) Listener of The Archers (3) Sort out monarch by gently applying friction (8) Unhealthy drive to seaside again (8) Go wrong in part of the territory (3) Regal as two boys (5) Watched grind in wood-processing factory (7) Even Duncan contains genetic code (inits)(3) Pass through house on break when writing (9)
Raced round vessel when given the cold shoulder (7) Crooked inclination (4) Fruit unpleasant, by the sound of it (4) One delivering hat (6) 5 6 7 13 14 15
Mimicked primate by entrance to deanery (4) Wealthy appearance, but no pennies about mid-July! (8) Use piano to secrete pigment (5) Any dairy product in time of need (5,3) The girl he’s bamboozled (3) Tease young farm animal (3)
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Plainer variety of sweet (7) Sort of seed, half seed no different (6) Deadly sin of the lions (5) Take away the French ship (4) Slow burner starts to wane – it’s common knowledge (4) Land lies in ruins (4)
Top (of a bottle) (3) 1 Attract lots of Of a fire, stop attention (4,1,6) burning (2,3) 8 Opposite of ‘near’ (3) 37 Traffic jam (5-2) 9 Legal code (3) 38 Ostrich-like bird (3) 11 ___ balls, pungent 39 One of a sweets (7) number (3) 12 Jewelled headband (5) 40 Magic, delight (11) 13 Went ahead (3) Down 14 Clothes-line clip (3) 1 Lion’s neck hair (4) 15 Supplier of food and 2 Barren, parched (4) drink (7) 3 Globe of the 17 Final part (3) visual organ (7) 19 Plays a role (4) Abrupt, 21 Night birds (4) unexpected (6) 23 Variety of bean (4) Measurement of 25 List of duties (4) liquid (5) 27 Put a stop to (3) Hit with an open 29 Add sugar to (7) hand (4) 31 Large tea Rabbit-like dispenser (3) animal (4) 34 36 4 5 6 7 8 10 16 18 20 22 24 25 26 28 30 32 33 34 35
Fake (5) Worker’s income (5) Sunbeam (3) Another word for the full stop (3) Trucker’s compartment (3) Existed (3) Style of throwing (7) Red cosmetic powder (5) Half ___, wrestling hold (6) Chilly or quick (5) Broomstick rider (5) Capital of Italy (4) Common or proper part of speech (4) Scottish family group (4) Parent’s sister (4)