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Combo Cross No. 5085

Straight Clues ACROSS

5 Genetic information carriers 7 Operating 8 Gladden 9 Dusty residue 11 Periods of time 13 Flat-topped hill 14 Upper class 15 Heating chamber 17 Strong thick cord 19 Walked like a duck 20 Let it stand 21 Stitches 22 Says several times

DOWN

1 Clever 2 Last of a series 3 Persuade by mind 4 Unit of current 5 Large metal pots 6 Dashers 10 Defraud 12 Upper house 13 Most pure and simple 16 Pitcher 18 Lyric poems

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

5 Firstly change some rooms into threadlike carrying bodies 7 You vocalise when practising 8 A shout of encouragement in Apache eruptions 9 Powdery residue of a tree 11 Ages, as opposed to nights 13 Some safaris in a flat-topped mountain 14 The best size of a type 15 A small furnace found in Coventry 17 Lasso a little improperly 19 Shuffled a bundle of banknotes with a penny, and got to the front 20 Some obstetricians leave it as it was 21 Applies needle and thread beginning September, and tips winners 22 Duplicates further showings

DOWN

1 Intelligent, by encapsulating precipitation 2 The final letter from some gamblers 3 Mind an afterthought from your first choice 4 The current measure of a parliamentarian with hesitation at the end 5 Soundly hailed Mr Reagan’s large boilers 6 Re skaters for a change - they become bare runners 10 Pull a fast one on trickery 12 The smaller house of parliament has briefly risen at Easter 13 The most common pool, by the way 16 A jug found in breweries 18 Poems intended to be sung in Rhodesian