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the crosswords
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 A doctor lets loose the cops in Canada (8) 5 Rise with audible discomfort (4) 9 Go on to higher things (5) 10 Is improved by a change of strip (7) 11 Find your school principal missing and panic? (4,4,4) 13 Burma’s whirling dances (6) 14 Here indeed is one man of genius (6) 17 You and Eve (6,6) 20 Find made by a hunter (7) 21 Break arranged for one who works in a hot place (5) 22 Small amount of money recovered for Jane (4) 23 Has a go at taking risks (8)
DOWN
1 Married expert joined the
staff (4) 2 All the same, a soldier has to
assume it (7) 3 Kids aren’t fit to eat without
them! (5,7) 4 A pane’s broken. Get it mended
in Spain (6) 6 Ring for spirited girl (5) 7 As an occupant I’d resent being
put out (8) 8 Regard as competent and of
some importance (12) 12 Influence of newspapers on
Paris street disorder (8) 15 Accumulate shares that have
increased in value (5,2) 16 Possibly push to a
conclusion (6) 18 It’s understandable Clare’s
upset (5) 19 They may hold one in
affection (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 A culinary herb (8) 5 A shellfish (4) 9 Giver (5) 10 Mechanical malfunction (7) 11 Become suddenly wealthy (6,2,4) 13 Dutiful reverence (6) 14 Mismanage (6) 17 Screw up courage (5,7) 20 Opposite (7) 21 Indolent person (5) 22 Instead (4) 23 Resist stubbornly (5,3)
DOWN
1 Roughly made (4) 2 Person’s private den (7) 3 A flowering twining plant (7,5) 4 For choice (6) 6 Jewish religious leader (5) 7 Fellow monks (8) 8 Debatable issue (4,8) 12 Castigate (8) 15 17th-century Italian astronomer/physicist (7) 16 Determined (6) 18 Underside of projecting roof (5) 19 Be visibly worried (4)