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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Where to operate on broken

hips a lot (8)

5 On the surface, not nice

people (4)

8 It’s taken badly (4)

9 Battle colours? (3,5)

10 The object of giving

a recital (7)

12 They’re just what the

doctor ordered (5)

13 Very fond of wine in the

wood (6)

15 Two bottles in one (6) 17 Made to pay a very

good figure (5)

18 Tool of the bridge

builder? (7)

22 The trouble with Jane (8) 23 The fruit I lug around (4) 24 A game sort of decision? (4) 25 Bone structure (8)

DOWN

1 Very experienced in building a comprehensive container (7)

2 It’s fun, mate (5)

3 Even if you can’t spell too

well, don’t throw it in! (5)

4 Fat fellow embracing a

redhead (4)

6 Do round the edges in red (7) 7 They come to light,

naturally (5)

11 Beaten in dance

arrangement (5)

12 Play a doctor and a

master (5)

14 Above all, perhaps, Ivan the

Terrible showed taste (7) 16 Alien imagined to put

mum on the wrong train (7) 17 Fatheaded deeds, hardly

deniable (5)

19 Receiver of tax at the end

of June (5)

20 It’s a funny thing, there

being no sunshine (5) 21 Eye-openers? (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Medical institution (8) 5 Dross (4)

8 Plunder (4) 9 Cosmetics! (3,5) 10 Piece of writing (7) 12 Measured amounts (5) 13 Affectionate (6)

15 Large bottle (6) 17 Punished monetarily (5) 18 A wrench (7)

22 Disaster (8)

23 Ugly fruit (4)

24 Break (4)

25 Complete set of bones (8)

DOWN 1 Capacious bag (7) 2 Fun (5)

3 Drying cloth (5) 4 Cooking fat (4)

6 Red (7)

7 Winged insects (5) 11 Beaten (5) 12 Stage-play (5)

14 Ice cream flavour (7) 16 Of the Red Planet (7) 17 Truths (5)

19 Cheque beneficiary (5) 20 Dark time (5)

21 Covers (4)