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THE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Allow to advise on how to treat straight
hair (6) 4 Lent is brought forward (8) 9 With a new clue I’d get the mathematici
an (6) 10 Bird takes fruit by the door (8) 12 A friend gets everything a year behind (4) 13 Go out with a girl (5) 14 Ascetic who may take an unnatural
attitude (4) 17 Physical training manual? (8,4) 20 Badly beaten apparently by two balls at
snooker (5,3,4) 23 A marmalade container just opened (4) 24 Picture that amuses young children (5) 25 Fit properly (4) 28 A course that is purely experimental? (5,3) 29 Sailor has to obtain an objective (6) 30 Party member who went to pot (8) 31 Added zest in the kitchen (6)
DOWN
1 Being trimmed in advance it’s now ready (8) 2 Runners who jump the gun are not forgotten (8) 3 Flag of many colours (4) 5 Bounder badly shaken might need it! (6,6) 6 Long for a piece of Gouda cheese (4) 7 Bed not turned - but the sheets may be (6) 8 Hilda unsettled by a bloomer (6) 11 An impostor’s standard (5,7) 15 Climb and mark at regular intervals (5) 16 Believes they’re used for cargo (5) 18 Being so one may react rashly with sad ill-grace (8) 19 The apartment is indeed airless (8) 21 Put on the hook from a debit? (6) 22 Weapon in bad repair (6) 26 Albert shortly gets to be a singer (4) 27 Parking sign on top is a swindle (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 The Barber of Seville (6) 4 So to speak (2,2,4) 9 Leave feeling of resentment (6) 10 To trigger (8) 12 Masticate (4) 13 Consider (5) 14 Percolate slowly (4) 17 Hopeful feature in misfortune (6,6) 20 Increase what is at stake (5,3,4) 23 Wild mountain goat (4) 24 Courage (5) 25 Twist out of shape (4) 28 Novel (8) 29 Hearsay (6) 30 Body of aircraft (8) 31 Highly polished (6)
DOWN
1 Prediction (8) 2 In a cautious manner (8) 3 Government (4) 5 An acquired instinctive habit (6,6) 6 To shadow (4) 7 Euphoric (6) 8 To release from liability (6) 11 The lot (5,7) 15 A decoration (5) 16 Creek (5) 18 Notoriously bad (8) 19 Danger of severe harm (8) 21 Financial exploitation (3-3) 22 Exceptional creative power (6) 26 Face of a clock (4) 27 Overcast (4)