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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Beef or grouse (8)
5 Nips back for a ride (4)
8 A leggy youngster? (4)
9 Indicate a fielder needs to be deeper (5,3)
10 Pink animal one may have seen in the dark (7)
12 Possibly tired, did one’s best (5)
13 Turn it upside down! (6)
15 Reconsider please, you may well be napping! (6) I get inquisitive about what can’t be kept quiet!
(5)
18 Do such girls bring hot flushes? (7)
22 Is it their job to make drinks? (8) 17 23 Do a bit of groundwork as a pilot (4)
Four ways fixed (4) Like a column all one’s own (8)
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DOWN
In which to pilot a racing car? (7)
A bad lemon can be green (5)
Fruit that goes very soft put in beer (5) Nominally, is he out of line? (4)
For stacking up in a pile, seen side-on (7)
No little man is famous (5) Buddy, it’s prickly (5)
12 Poetasters have it, so do you (5)
14 Being of several colours, it’s first-class in brown, perhaps (7) Having an incomplete preference? (7) Takes small cuts (5) Wires can make us better informed (5)
Give instruction in art, possibly (5)
Shed tears, just a little, softly (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS Grumble (8)
Whirl (4)
Cow’s baby (4)
Draw attention to (5,3)
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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: ACROSS: 1 Gammon, 4 Script, 7 Arms, 8 Team-mate, 9 Nowhere, 12 Hop, 14 Amazon, 15 Aghast, 16 Dry, 18 Evident, 22 Clarinet, 23 Hero, 24 Exodus, 25 Outset. DOWN: 1 Grassland, 2 Momentary, 3 Notch, 4 Stair, 5 Rome, 6 Patio, 10 Whole, 11 Eagle, 12 Heartless, 13 Petticoat, 17 Relax, 19 Venus, 20 Ditto, 21 Prod.
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Leopard (7) Attempted (5)
“Turn ---” (6) Dozing (6) Clamorous (5) Woolly top (7) Shoemakers (8)
Cab (4)
Stitched (4) Intimate (8)
DOWN Pilot’s compartment (7) Large fruit (5) Pippin (5)
“--- Armstrong”, astronaut (4)
Side view (7)
Well known (5) Prickly tree or shrub (5) Flavour (5) Multicoloured arc (7) Incomplete (7) Minor cuts (5)
More sage (5)
Teach (5)
Shed tears (4)