22 GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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Not the twit who's thin on top? ( 7) Why the hard- bitten crook gave himself up? ( 6,3)
Time to turn in, the soldier reveals ( 5)
Get the letter off ( 5)
Run back to find people trapped in agony ( 7)
Adds to the contents of the jug Was wobbly from the second blow ( 5)
The cry of an animal, though you say no ( 5)
Run right into the chopper, turning ( 5)
Concealed a number in the latter half ( 6)
Many, since, having been badly affected by cuts ( 6)
The biggest exam, everybody will enter for ( 7)
Said "Awful racket outside" with scorn ( 7)
An obvious attempt to discourage imitators ( 6)
Conclude it's a coating of some kind ( 6)
Tips from people who are not to be trusted ( 5)
Give the last ball- point to ( 5) Rule out the hundred in cash ( 5) Three meals a day and money you don't have to work for ( 7)
So see first the performer ( 7) Following behind the Queen ( 5) Stop in the shade, terribly hot ( 5) Experience, when you rehearse ( 2,7)
He'll wait until the trip is over ( 7) ( 7)
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Someone noisily closing the door of the old car? ( 6)
What I see floating in a great expanse of water ( 5,3) Created excitement when one dived off the bridge into the river? ( 4,1,6)
Change your mind when you regain consciousness ( 4,5) Wrongly accept to be an accident ( 7)
Don't forget to carry inside and look after ( 4,2,4) Produced, to make the hole with ( 4)
Tell you it's right and make you very happy ( 6)
Bets the dope has been swallowed by the dogs ( 7)
Is keen to get the building site surrounding the church ( 6) Tend to stoop ( 7)
Drank to get warm ( 7)
In which, drunk on the hard stuff, one's very merry ( 4,7)
To give it significance, at the end we land outside ( 4,6)
Empty the sack ( 9)
"Strived" is wrong, but amuse one ( 7)
If you don't mind listening to excuses ( 6)
Not voting to give to one's successors ( 4,4)
The Scottish leader is given access by the guard ( 6)
He eats a lot – too much, putting weight on ( 7)
One by one forming part of the act ( 2,4)
See, all right, when you open your eyes ( 4) it does