CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
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CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Calculate with this air-con can be included in a vehicle (6) 5 E-mails I’d sent out detailing Utopian intention (8) 9 College girl translating ‘circa’? It might be seen on Top Gear (7,3) 10 Proper press release I am after (4) 11 Criticised six I filed away (8) 12 Light gin and it mixed with energy (6) 13 Like one approaching a continent (4) 15 Fine points of neckwear from part of France (8) 18 Valerie has space for spies in part of Spain (8) 19 Dissenting voice ain’t troubled (4) 21 Great desire for T-shirt design (6) 23 A smiling attempt to make crooked (8) 25 Have meal sent back for this woman (4) 26 Sailor tarnishing the act of not voting (10) 27 I rode around in movie from time to time (8) 28 Fib about donkey being animal seen in a film (6)
Down
2 British alternative to one curry (5) 3 Tick off actors before one opening (9) 4 Ghost that might be seen in pub (6) 5 Noted bit of play culminates in CID operation (10,5) 6 Organ precedes silence we hear in audio device (8) 7 Pull up initially, in part, this flower (5) 8 Test I administered after fish course being most suspicious (9) 14 Reportedly observe coins that will make a big difference (3,6) 16 Transport with words spoken by actors – they never meet (9) 17 Country with lake bed first surrounded by beach (8) 20 Like to travel by boat to attack (6) 22 Lines on the wireless where zero is increased to one (5) 24 General heads two classically clever people (5)