The Argus

2-Speed Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

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Across

7. Member of a rising movement (5)

8. Draw a picture of the harbour light (7)

9. Well known for being unskilled! (7)

10. Type that will go in the ring (5)

12. What is performed at the School Concert? It’s easy! (6,4)

Dull - be in need of different result (10) Do some climbing, as bees do (5) Take back what was said about the pamphlet (7)

Noose? (7)

First to get the gun ready (5)

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20. Unordained cleric (3,7) Companion (8) Scrape (7) Waits on (6) Tendency (5) Record (4)

Down

1. Guidelines for heads, we hear (10)

2. Helps to change a wild beast (5)

3. Convivial meeting-place used when driving (4)

Court plea to evoke sympathy (6) He makes a suggestion in favour of prose translatio­n (8)

It only works when trodden underfoot (7) An instructio­n to the monastic to gamble? (3,7)

Wife to lend a hand with a friend (8) An abrasion is no handicap (7) Attempts to play an ace (6) Vestment that takes some getting out of! (5)

Kind of measure used in recording (4)

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20. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S 2-SPEED CROSSWORD:

Across: 7 Tithes; 8 Memoir; 10 Colonel; 11 Paris; 12 Ewer; 13 Usury; 17 Green; 18 Bill; 22 Tramp; 23 Outlast; 24 Accord; 25 Muscle. Down: 1 Sticker; 2 Stalked; 3 Feint; 4 Keepers; 5 Court; 6 Dress; 9 Plaster of; 14 Drapery; 15 Finance; 16 Flatter; 19 Steal; 20 Fancy; 21 Stout.

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