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the crosswords
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Back injury I have found wearing (7) 4 Combine may lose identity (5) 7 Noticed to be seven minus five (4) 8 Own no pearls perhaps (8) 10 It’s not excessive to have one’s share after a fashion (10) 12 A trap for the careless driver (6) 13 Stick the notice in this place (6) 15 They have set objectives (10) 18 Stood and ran in panic from storms (8) 19 Priest needed by the sick (4) 20 Peg appears to succeed endlessly (5) 21 A sum Ben worked out for Ray (7)
DOWN
1 Course of salts (5) 2 Twice concluded that it is exaggerated (8) 3 Puts up secret amendments (6) 4 Give the players the wrong time? (10) 5 Four-cornered circle (4) 6 Add to the general confusion (7) 9 Sort of fight nobody would pay to see? (4-3-3) 11 Determined to give poor Rose an instrument (8) 12 Recently in bed; hence delayed (7) 14 Admits the lot with expressions of pain (6) 16 Cooked meats provide energy (5) 17 Tie design (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Learned person (7) 4 Horizontal (5) 7 Well-ventilated (4) 8 Discursive (8) 10 Needless warning of danger (5,5) 12 Mental health (6) 13 Dull with sleep (6) 15 Laughing uncontrollably(2,8) 18 Liable to error (8) 19 Begin to be active (4) 20 Avoid facing up to (5) 21 Utter disaster (7)
DOWN
1 Body of business employees (5) 2 Uncompromising policy (4,4) 3 Exceptionally (6) 4 Broad-mindedness (10) 5 Invalid (4) 6 Flippantly (7) 9 Heir (4-2-4) 11 Arousing pity (8) 12 Confused fight (7) 14 Not easily excited (6) 16 A durable twilled fabric (5) 17 Tiny blood-sucking insect (4)