Crossword:

14640

ACROSS

2 The sailor’s pamphlet is impractical

6 To penetrate sharply keeps tabs on them

7 Occur suddenly when seeds start to sprout maybe (4,2)

10 Got the socially repressed city area

11 Angle for a lot of swimmers

12 A dot is seen in a reading about debasement

15 Check creditors’ contents

18 This landlubber secretes an eyot

20 Back at the dynasty, subduing

21 No hesitation for this old flood survivor

22 One using electricity in order to resist those art forms

DOWN

1 Carve some over-stretched fabrics

2 One who diminishes a cricket club returns

3 Supposed ability to forecast a short time on view (6,5)

4 On top for naught it appears

5 Most crust appears on this part of the leg

8 Double ratio in food from the sea

9 Made a call to Ned, on the hop for a change

10 Tagged pieces of a mechanical contrivance

13 Very severe but with a good edge

14 Skill to produce a story not vacant

16 Sudden spurt with a lot of ardour

17 As a Yugoslav he’s to get it for being a leader

19 Adjacent to part of one area

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

2 Theoretical

6 Pierce with a knife

7 Happen suddenly (4,2)

1 0 Overcrowded city quarter

11 Water dwellers

12 State of squalor

15 Revise and correct

18 Isolated country

20 Domesticating

21 Old boat builder

22 Variable electrical resistor

DOWN

1 Engrave

2 Intensity reducer

3 Clairvoyance (6,5)

4 House top

5 The shank

8 A small mollusc

9 Rang up

10 Ingenious device

13 Unrelenting

14 Natural aptitude

16 Sudden run

17 Former Yugoslav leader

19 Not far off

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