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CRYPTIC CLUES
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From street, telephone cord (6) Giving a cry, an unusual songbird (6) Strange poem making us behave sulkily (4) It’s in progress below road (5,3) Mischievous child left with nothing about to beg (7) Grain eaten by every Easterner (3) For a mod, we arranged field (6) Pale friend needing cover (6) Depressing second commercial (3) Desperate father against Conservative (7) Company rule about man supplying salad (8) Father at home suffering (4) I etch badly, cold and busy (6) Baby’s toy alarm (6)
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I seem most confused occasionally (9) Salesman with dram in broadcast getting rebuke (9)
Gang leader, with regret, left thin porridge (5)
Detectives with the queen for a drink (5) Standard room with number on (4) Prepared, with money (5) Evidence from person initially on top of building (5) 11
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Former partner with deed that’s strictly accurate (5)
Unwilling to give odd Celt a turn (9) Anne, cured unexpectedly, shows stamina (9)
A sum of money lent, we hear, when unassisted (5)
Memento, the Spanish one, held by Catholic (5)
Fresher, Northern, with water jug (5) Domestic animal eating second nuisance (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
Twine (6) Cage-bird (6) Be gloomy (4) In progress (5,3) Beg (7)
Grain (3)
Piece of grassland (6)
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Pale (6) Unhappy (3) Frenzied (7)
Salad (8)
Ache (4)
Busy (6)
Baby’s toy (6)
DOWN Occasionally (9) Rebuke (9)
Thin porridge (5) Alcoholic apple drink (5) Standard (4) Prepared (5) Evidence (5) Precise (5) Unwilling (9) Stamina (9) Unaccompanied (5) Memento (5) Fresher (5) Nuisance (4)
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Two sets of clues but the answers are the same ANSWERS TOMORROW