The Scotsman

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CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

6. Let everyone spend the weekend in being overdrawn (7)

7. Of a stone in weight? (5)

9. Accessory for Jumbo or Ivy, perhaps (5)

10. Observe unusual state of being long-winded (7)

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Formal demand is quiet, or in a different setting (11)

Brief appearance at a railway station? (7,4) Lucidity at lyric composing (7) Disastrous consequenc­e of man being overweight (5)

21. Archery shot the winners got in the middle (5)

22. Owl on a journey round Gateshead, that's a mistake! (3,4)

Down

1. There's nothing wicked about this fruit! (5)

2. Origin of the sound of impudence (6)

3. Desire to make money (3)

4. Talk inconseque­ntially about a novice (6)

5. A craving for fruit? (7)

8. Continue in the manufactur­e of stripes (7)

11. High standard illuminate­d in the wharf (7)

13. Local man gets cross with mass gathering (7)

15. Shrill sound of the shrike, perhaps (6)

16. Fruit eaten by an ogre, possibly (6)

17. Craft that goes up and down (5)

20. Company figure? (3)

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QUICK CLUES:

Across

6. Fragile (7)

7. Spate (5)

9. Tally (5)

10. Trip (7)

12. Gesture (11)

14. Unconquera­ble (11)

18. Chief city (7)

19. Emit (5)

21. Release (5)

22. Frighten (7)

Down

1. Fissure (5)

2. Fast (6)

3. Cunning (3)

4. Flowery (6)

5. Propriety (7)

8. Hide (7)

11. Moral (7)

13. Weird (7)

15. Source (6)

16. Sheen (6)

17. Drink (5)

20. Marry (3)

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