Western Daily Press (Saturday)

Cryptic crossword

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Across

4 Girl with a French friend, possessing taste (6)

7 Hiding the fact that untruthful­ness is despicable (5,3)

8 Ours includes a cricket

club, as it happens (6) 10 Ways of making progress in the garden (5)

13 Further from

Rome? (4)

14 Siamese bad hat going

to India (4)

15 Foreign boy,

Oriental (4)

16 Follow for days? (3) 17 Time to return, if you

like (4)

19 Vessel showing many

the way (4)

21 Learning what may be

auctioned (9) 23 Courage needed on

the roads in winter (4) 24 Guns in backstage

American usage (4) 26 Brewers buy bags of

it (3) 27 A measure of pest

control? (4)

29 Birds in the music

room (4) 32 Unresponsi­ve?

Absolutely (4)

33 Ring her for

mushrooms (5) 34 Strive to displace the

holders (6)

35 A little waterfall? (8) 36 The fish hawk's

outsize prey (6)

Down

1 Was unaware of

processing pelts (5) 2 More than a cuppa (5) 3 In certain ways, the horse provides food (4)

4 Faint, being now so

distracted (5)

5 Tie things up with a winner to the corner (4)

6 Bony vegetable? (6) 9 Believe there are

letters to revise (6) 11 A hot one makes you

cry (3) 12 Bit of a shindig many of you wouldn't understand (5)

13 The chap got old but

still coped (7) 15 Medical person in

Indochina (3) 16 Assume it's the

river (3)

18 The start of a banned

clique (6)

20 Biblical character of a house with no fresh water (5)

21 In time, some fares

must go up (3)

22 In quiet approach,

make little sound (3) 23 Brilliance in shrewdly

using a key part (6) 25 Start ruffling up the

animal outside (3) 28 Thanks for the pen, it's

very nice (5)

30 Child possessing a right to a special hat (5)

31 Spare girl? (5)

32 Such meat is

remarkably pricy (4) 33 Grub to get on

with? (4)

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