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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 A computer user can handle it (8)
5 Looks old and sage, perhaps (4)
8 Tony is a proper one (4)
9 A singer and flier (8)
10 Furious about the grenade explosion (7)
12 Dispatched assorted nails (5)
13 Strongly drawn to that American boy (6)
15 Those hanging lowest, possibly, over the rails?
(6)
17 Obligations best settled at the start of the day (5)
18 I’m old-fashioned and at deadlock here (7)
22 A topping trader or pit worker sheltering the sick (8)
23 Netting used for hems
(4)
24 Edgy team? (4)
25 They’re perhaps too far to go to (8)
DOWN
A year’s start (7) Being immature is no good to you (5)
The possible outcome when one lives with a woman (5)
4 Superman’s county? (4)
6 The scowl of a war flier in deadly earnest (7)
7 Chair in an American saloon (5)
1
2
3
11 Leers drunkenly as one staggers (5)
12 Pick up a good story (5)
14 The toff suffered when prevented from winning
(7)
16 Is very angry as one checks out an article (7)
17 Women make me sad (5)
19 The value to some farmer, it seems (5)
20 A ship’s propeller? (5)
21 Keen to wreck the joint!
(4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS Control column (8) Long periods (4) In grammar, a name (4)
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5
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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: ACROSS: 1 Friend, 4 Menace, 7 Late, 8 In demand, 9 Elderly, 12 Sap, 14 Avenue, 15 Gallon, 16 Dad, 18 Titanic, 22 Lollipop, 23 Stop, 24 Reveal, 25 Emerge. DOWN: 1 Full board, 2 In the lead, 3 Drive, 4 Model, 5 Name, 6 Conga, 10 Doubt, 11 Yearn, 12 Solicitor, 13 Pineapple, 17 Alone, 19 Impel, 20 Ample, 21 Blue.
9 A canary, say? (8)
10 Enraged (7)
12 Killed (5)
13 Jerked (6)
15 Drying-cloths (6)
17 Borrowings (5)
18 Stalemate (7)
22 Hat maker (8)
23 Network (4)
24 Team (4)
25 Furthest degrees (8) DOWN
1 First month (7)
2 Youthful (5)
3 Publish (5)
4 County (4)
6 Wry face (7)
7 “----- chair” (5)
11 Spools (5)
12 Exclusive story (5)
14 Suborned, or “got at” (7)
16 Is boiling (7)
17 Ladies (5)
19 Deserve (5)
20 Water vapour (5)
21 Leg joint (4)