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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

13 Is successful in using the amplifier? (5,2,3) 14 Speech that creates a riot being televised (7) 15 Complains when a teeny bit of light comes through the shutters (6) 16 Lifted towards adjusted lens, captured (6) 17 No parking on street inside, round the clock (7) 18 Contract of sale: scribbled note (5) 19 With ‘Don’t swallow whole, child!’ we jumped on (4) 20 Be overcome by tiredness and let slip ball caught (5) 21 Agree about mother being a drifter (5) 22 Variety turn. A dance: Eastern (6) 23 It’s not granny that’s the difficulty (5) 28 Pardon for getting pen name wrong before (7) 30 High voice, male, comes in, vibrato (7) 33 Light, first one, blurrily appearing to the east (3,2,4) 36 Vegetarians won’t eat it? Nonsense! (6) 38 Not all by yourself (5) 39 Gather a whole lot (5) 40 Sponsor two men, in short (6) 42 Pay for and don’t get a seat (5) 43 Cheat dreadfully. Caught by me, produced knife (7) 44 Married to a Celt with charm (6) 46 A little embarrassed by what the girl’s wearing (4) 49 Having little time, are panicking and rush (4) 51 The score is two love (6) 53 As fighter, making splash (7) 55 Page-long talk delivered by salesman (5) 59 Long to change a litre into imperial measure (6) 60 Old girlfriend left in note (5) 61 Goes off about nothing as one rummages for (5) 62 Swimming along with duck in the water (6) 63 Hardly fair on the subject of (4,5) 65 Tommy’s own (7) 66 Lumbered with at school. Rotten (7) 70 Spotted round about five — early in the morning (5) 71 Act on, changing key immediately (2,4) 73 Clean the top half of ball first (5) 75 For sun, clad ludicrously, burn (5) 80 Have the barbecue too hot for the fish? (4) 82 Keep from falling when there’s pothole on street (5) 83 A glass dropper (7) 84 Some waver seen to be reluctant (6) 85 A very fine paper it’s crazy to take to court (6) 86 One isn’t quivering from anxiety (7) 87 For the foreman, a great means of saving face (10)

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1 Act on behalf of, going round to constituent (6) 2 Properly cooked — congratulations (4,4) 3 Carrying, I ward off the evil spirit (5) 4 A sailor and working in desert! (7) 5 Programme requiring time and organisation (6) 6 Spoils toy boy idiotically and endlessly (5) 7 Take place, perhaps, up north (6) 8 I’ll be accommodated in best possible quarters (7) 9 The ugliness of prejudice (10) 10 Having run back, be in bed, tucked up (5) 11 Wrongdoing on the part of Bond’s boss (8) 12 Slowly move a barrier for the cockney (4) 24 Root ineptly about in the tin for the drawing (7) 25 Rocky is penniless (5) 26 I had chum get hold of it, to counterfeit (7) 27 Come round, dear, and take part in the event (7) 29 Designed by self with little insect at bottom (5) 31 On river, every open stretch of water (5) 32 A star to guide us (4) 34 Succeed in getting answers to ‘Sex’ and ‘Date of Birth’ (6) 35 The story was again swallowed (4) 37 Lake airmen are flying over is drinkable water (7) 41 Surpassing, is really good (7) 45 Stop and run into the fold (6) 47 Don’t go back on your promise to support (5,2) 48 Authorise, after a couple of pages, change-over (7) 50 Are upset by a certain deletion (7) 52 Creature bit hole in (4) 54 Does it stand right out among other varieties of fish? (5) 56 Heavy to shut (5) 57 Assume we are not allowed to finish (4) 58 With puncture — hole in — remain buoyant (5) 60 Awful figure, has the art to disguise (6-4) 64 Speculate as to whether there’s gold one among these (8) 67 After a month, about, shaft is crumbling (8) 68 Capturing bronze, isn’t, sadly second (7) 69 Treatment for heart trouble. Pity it was withdrawn (7) 72 Involve getting soldiers into line-up (6) 74 Where the shoes are mended, finally (2,4) 76 ‘Instruction’ without its last two letters (6) 77 Shut in an enclosure, she is livid (5) 78 Name wrong day. Change (5) 79 Frightening, as someone going bald-headed for wouldn’t be? (5) 81 Nasty weather. Get a cab (4)