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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Does he tell people what

to write? (8)

5 Cultivate for cash (4) 8 Remain in a difficult post (4) 9 Finished by being

beached (6,2)

10 Familiarly, the wife of an

aged man? (3,4)

12 A piece of sticky paper (5) 13 Watch your heart! (6) 15 Render ’armless! (6)

17 Flier of a little light

aircraft? (5)

18 American city, nominally? (7) 22 Being in the soup, might

they have been caned? (8) 23 Come down once a year (4) 24 Does their brightness give them the right to say different? (4) 25 Gifts of writhing serpents! (8)

DOWN

1 Indulge oneself in many

a healthy recreation (7) 2 Maybe cold around the centre court with no sunshine (5)

3 Dragged to the altar? (5) 4 Impetuous complaint? (4) 6 The state a girl gets in (7) 7 Consume doggedly? (3,2) 11 Highly skilled in one

department (5)

12 Strike in troubled times (5) 14 Man Lucy upset with a

malicious statement (7) 16 A game of wits (7)

17 For him, would the supply

run out? (5)

19 Hot teas brewed in a

hurry! (5)

20 Teach to draw? (5)

21 Thus a piano may suggest

“opera” (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Tyrant (8)

5 Cash drawer (4) 8 Cease (4)

9 Did the dishes (6,2) 10 Elderly woman (3,4) 12 Tread heavily (5) 13 The heart (slang) (6) 15 Discard weapons (6) 17 Flier (5)

18 Cheshire city (7) 22 Red fruits (8) 23 Collapse (4) 24 Beams (4)

25 Gifts (8)

DOWN

1 Frolic or gambol (7) 2 Overshadow (5)

3 Pulled along (5)

4 Foolhardy (4)

6 America’s “Hoosier State” (7) 7 Accept uncritically (3,2) 11 Expert (5)

12 Hit (5)

14 Defamation (7)

16 “The Elgin ---” (7)

17 Saint’s name (5)

19 Urgency (5)

20 Teach (5)

21 Washing aid (4)