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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Bachelor arriving with the Spanish keg (6)
4 Risk making Democrat rage
(6)
7 Clever graduate backing the French (4)
8 Eccentric urges one to be open-handed (8)
9 Badly cut, some dress (7)
12 Ancient ring left with head of department (3)
14 Exhilarated man going round after the usual time (6)
15 Eccentric mowed a field (6)
16 Add dram (3)
18 Unrestricted head of school – one with a plant (7)
22 Bachelor, e.g., with the queen going round pub with novice (8)
23 First of bishops elderly and
courageous (4)
24 Celebrity, cold and hard, using fabric stiffener (6)
25 Refuse group of offspring (6) DOWN
1 Judo expert left in rear hit hard (5,4)
2 Unwilling to give strange Celt a turn (9)
3 Blond with lamp (5)
4 I’m after man supplying fabric (5)
5 No room is standard (4)
6 Some of the qualifiers, evenly balanced (5)
10 Quiet sprite using ledge (5)
11 Odds for woman with points (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: ACROSS:
DOWN:
12 Funny duo, not mad, with person who’s different (3,3,3)
13 Odd new urn broken in Australia (4,5)
17 Finished on time, it’s open to view (5)
19 Rushed chapter revealing US farm (5)
20 Loner’s strange register (5)
21 Jetty used by nobleman, say (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Keg (6)
4 Peril (6)
7 Clever (4)
8 Open-handed (8)
1 Worse off, 5 Limp, 8 Sole, 9 Elephant, 10 Each way, 12 Swish,
13 Sprats, 15 Recent, 17 Wench, 18 Rambler, 22 Prospers, 23 Case, 24 Sure,
25 Trespass.
1 Wasters, 2 Relic, 3 Omega, 4 Feel, 6 Imagine, 7 Pitch, 11 Witch,
12 Steam, 14 Rancour, 16 Targets, 17 Wipes, 19 Aisle, 20 Llama, 21 Meet.
9 Outfit (7)
12 Aged (3)
14 Exhilarated (6)
15 Field (6)
16 Child (3)
18 Plant (7)
22 Novice (8)
23 Courageous (4)
24 Fabric stiffener (6)
25 Rubbish (6)
DOWN
1 Karate expert (5,4)
2 Unwilling (9)
3 Pale (5)
4 Jeans fabric (5)
5 Average standard (4)
6 The same (5)
10 Ledge (5)
11 Betting odds (5)
12 Person differing from others
(3,3,3)
13 In Australia (4,5)
17 Apparent (5)
19 US farm (5)
20 Enlist (5)
21 Jetty (4)