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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 You can bet on informal talk

being impudent (8)

5 Los Angeles politician

shedding light on things (4) 8 Bread you don’t work for (4) 9 Wherein the sea captain keeps

his records? (3,5)

10 Like a movie queen launched

some time back (7)

12 Point of a thorn? (5)

13 Teddy boy? (6)

15 Where, in Malaysia, Margaret

took Nan in (6)

17 Writer going to New York with

little cash (5)

18 Warned by a watchful little

chap (7)

22 Getting over a sea journey? (8) 23 Unfit to make a meal? (4) 24 View a dunderhead as a top

player! (4)

25 Standard figure accepted, like a share (8)

DOWN

1 A fruit; one given to an

animal (7)

2 Church music meant to be

restful (5)

3 A game for Henry to master (5) 4 Pulls so hard as to strain one’s

guts? (4)

6 Canadian article on a prince (7) 7 Right or left sock (5) 11 Transport by automobile and

railway (5)

12 She’s relatively nice about an

early start (5)

14 Being a nice type, you don’t

always triumph (7)

16 Fish dug up and gone bad! (7) 17 Chooses certain tools (5) 19 Boys turning up for the

beer! (5)

20 The line to follow (5) 21 Possible slip in one’s speech? (4) QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Sauce, lip (8)

5 A light (4)

8 Be idle (4)

9 Timber building (3,5) 10 Nigerian, maybe (7) 12 Arctic direction (5) 13 Prince (6)

15 Malaysian state (6) 17 Coin (5)

18 Put on guard (7) 22 “Zebra ---” (8) 23 Crippled (4)

SATURDAY’S PUB QUIZ ANSWERS:

1. C: Orkney; 2. A: Court of Owls; 3. B: Babylon 5; 4. B: German; 5. B: Won; 6. C: Oedipus; 7. B: Fool; 8. C: Benjamin Disraeli; 9. A: Isaiah; 10. A: Dead Man; 11. C: Friends; 12. A: 1946; 13. B: Cold Pursuit; 14. B: Joe Cornish; 15. C: Floogals; 16. A: Dutch; 17. B: 2000; 18. Trick question !!!!! Diana Rigg played Emma Peel in ITV series The Avengers; 19. B: Golf; 20. C: Painting.