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GIVE YOUR BRAIN A WORKOUT
ACROSS
8 Sunday taxi drivers reject ombudsman’s third complaint ( 7)
9 Nice and complicated about the Spanish plant (9) 13 Lofty address has a sinister sound (5)
14 Beer with new king in joint (5)
15 Drums tell story about island doctor ( 7) 16 Shout about last form of glass ( 7)
17 Answer, say, is patronage (5)
18 Plane forced to land (5)
20 Fool concerning something explosive (5) 22 Dogtooth (6)
23 Temporary setback of the diaphragm (6) 25 Weep when fat ( 7) 27 Daughter is to relax due to illness ( 7)
30 Reject circling cape on right flight path (6) 31 Weakling and bully on a road (6) 32 Dismissal gets society to improve (5)
35 Old Italian- style manor (5)
36 Wife to warm up some cereal (5) 37 Temporarily free programs for equine attire, say ( 7) 39 Every character upsets him, taking Utah angle ( 7) 41 Fool has morning tea (5)
42 Happy endings initially gratify my stunted character (5)
43 American woman to appear on a carpet (9) 44 Diamonds come down in the country ( 7)
DOWN
1 Shapely bend starts as a vitamin deficiency (6)
2 Sailor posted notes, as he’s not there (8) 3 Drug makes Greek character stop with hesitation (4,7)
4 Prevent fellow getting cleaner (9) 5 Protestant bishop suitable first ( 7) 6 80s pop star in Spain is unbreakable (10) 7 In and around a former empire (4) 10 Become a prisoner as a warning (6) 11 This country finds changes are in another ( 7)
12 Friend to get married, back to show some neck (6)
19 In charge during advance on old artist ( 7)
21 Let up and come about phone lines ( 7) 24 Moving study is by nomadic arrangement (11)
26 Tan, darling, that’s sweet (5,5) 28 Month gone by, getting professor round shape (9)
29 Yours truly gets terribly stale in race ( 7) 30 Victor to learn dancing like spring (6) 32 British soldier returns tree to
New York (3,5)
33 Craft connection to fade audibly (3-3) 34 Wails about getting greeting in another language ( 7)
38 A lease includes German silver (6) 40 Regarding engineers starting at home (2,2)