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Right At Home JAMES CABOOTER

A posthumous gem from the late ivory-tinkling half of Chas & Dave. The quality of free-wheeling romps like Street Games, which comes on like a cockney ELO, belies their home demo origins. Also features Trigger, a track from the Only Fools musical.

Two sets of clues – but the answers are the same.

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

Landlady’s character (6)

Chief sobs uncontrollably (4) The picture contains a story (4) Takes out small fillets (6)

Dance film (4)

Lazy-sounding hero (4)

I return to a smidgeon (4)

Old husband got married with some resistance (3)

16 Rushed out of France (3)

17 We’re off to get a jug (4)

20 Lucid French river, say (4)

23 Good time with a deity (4)

24 Look for a very quiet listener (6) 25 Shout for right paddle (4)

26 Still in the venture (4)

27 Can see improvement

in meeting (6) 1 4 7 8 9 10 12 14

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Exchange roles with no-hoper (5)

It grows in the street (4) Tries unsuccessfully to take exam again (5) Writer from Zagreb, ironically (4)

Cat visits old church a great deal (6) Males running witch hunt site (5)

Lead off to the valley (4)

Hot place in Coventry (4) Safeguard space and get positive (6)

16 Search for a weapon (5)

18 Damages goods, we hear (5) 19 Lament ridge being lost (5) 21 Soon get a French veto (4) 22 Eager for knee operation (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror

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QUICK CLUES ACROSS

Epistle (6) Defeated Leader (4) contestant (5) Long poem (4) Large shrub (4) Cuts of meat (6) Take a test Stagger (4) again (5)

Object Ballpoint of worship (4) pen (4)

Tiny amount (4) Wild cat (6)

Unit of Massachusetts resistance (3) city (5)

16 Sprinted (3) Glen (4)

17 Pitcher (4) Kiln (4)

20 Rational (4) Make

23 Rural god (4) certain (6)

24 Seem (6) 16 Firearm (5)

25 Bellow (4) 18 Erodes (5)

26 Level (4) 19 Sad song (5)

27 Spiritualists’ 21 Unknown (4)

meeting (6) 22 Enthusiastic (4) Solutions in next week’s Sunday Mirror 1 4 7 8 9 10

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Which one of our four definitions is correct?

GALIPOT

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Large heavy container with a lid Small swift galley

Resin obtained from several species of pine Someone who behaves in a rude or disrespectful way