Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES 14776

ACROSS

6 Topple on the weighing machine

9 The smooth talking duck and I, are

fairly close

1 0 Disentangle the peacekeepers just

the same

11 Bounded when unusually pale

outside England

1 2 Just a bazaar

1 3 An untouchable mixture of directions

1 5 In the last minute – are you fair dinkum?

1 7 Punch the graduate head shrinker

1 8 A fisherman’s aid is in business

1 9 Creep for a short distance

20 Begotten bottle tops ran out

22 Odd rug brigades make widely

domesticated birds

DOWN

1 Get one’s own back on little scavengers

2 A band dobs in the first person

3 Promotional literature of an aviator

4 A whinger ripens up

5 Move out with two pence at loose

ends to butt in

7 The bounder finds out they stop the

rain coming in

8 A model gorilla turns into a crocodilian

1 3 Not far away – just round the corner

1 4 Is sold out of hard food

1 5 A hang-up from a crook night

1 6 Somehow left cures for abscesses

1 7 Young children with two degrees

beside the point

2 1 Manipulate a semi-trailer

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

6 Take a tumble

9 Greasy

1 0 Loosen

11 Jumped over

1 2 Equitable

1 3 Renowned

Scottish loch

1 5 Genuine

1 7 Assault

1 8 On board ship

1 9 Unit of length

20 Nee

22 Small parakeets

DOWN

1 Exact satisfaction

for

2 Japanese sash

3 Aeroplane

passenger

4 Concealed gunman

5 Interfere

7 House tops

8 NT river system

1 3 Close at hand

1 4 Food, not in liquid

form

1 5 An inanimate

object

1 6 Open sores

1 7 Infants

2 1 Fit out

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