Western Morning News

Cryptic crossword

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Across

1 Hangs around with thick-headed beastly males (5)

6 Room to spread

capes (5)

9 Location of national

interest, of course (7) 10 Credit a politician with

muscle trouble (5) 11 Go round to get a

garment (5)

12 A name came up (5) 13 Magician having terrible trouble with security! (7)

15 Short name for a

Carmelite centre (3) 17 In the menagerie, it's

not just a pond (4) 18 To pile in order to be

obliging (6)

19 Seen to contain five in

number (5)

20 Wee drinks around closing time, one imagines (6)

22 General secretary? (4) 24 Still the old-fashioned

style of shirt (3) 25 Tough guy creating drama in the outskirts of Hendon (4,3) 26 Trembling tree? (5) 27 Macho, but only to a

companion (5)

28 It's a blow, being

dismissed at 150! (5) 29 Listen fully to anything

said (4,3)

30 Beneath being stood on in the way implied (5)

31 The place is in sheer

chaos! (5)

Down

2 The terrible fellow twice turned traitor! (6)

3 It's good to go easily,

however hazardous (6) 4 Drink up a bit

snappishly (3)

5 Baby bird? (5)

6 It could be an

educationa­l time (7) 7 Keep switching,

doggedly! (4) 8 It's no cert, perhaps,

for the player (6) 12 Areas where brokendown cars are put out of the way (5) 13 Housemaid? (5) 14 Hold firmly that I have

to be in the right (5) 15 A note

reciprocat­ed? (5) 16 The loch is smooth at

one corner (5)

18 Tree or soft variety of

cane (5) 19 Old-fashioned girl of

destructiv­e beauty? (7) 21 Get back and once

more go (6) 22 Grown-ups with no

children! (6) 23 Nominally blue, it finishes up in the

Black Sea (6) 25 Pumping centre (5) 26 Suffering taken to

heart by teachers (4) 28 It's pushed over a bridge to start the ball rolling (3)

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