Manawatu Standard

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Sort of cheese from a residence in the country (7)

4. What journalist­s may write in colonnades (7)

8. Skilled naval rating joining the French (4)

9. They show the heavens a plain rate of exchange (10)

11. A mountainou­s sort of plant (6)

12. Spied her going out, and died (8)

14. Foretellin­g what would make copper hit out (9)

15. How to dial a Lama from Tibet (5)

17. Jugs were put out on sink-top (5)

18. One called up to study the play-text (9)

19. The pharmacist who dug grist out of it (8)

21. One putting up with old Reg maybe (6)

23. I bet a brave way can be found to shorten it (10)

24. Sheet of glass sounds as if it will hurt (4)

25. RA rules it out as Dali’s work (7)

26. Grow less lithe initially in getting winded like this (7)

DOWN

1. Wild fruit parcel made with a bap (4-5)

2. It’s a very large amount to dial up (9,6)

3. Congers come up from the isle eventually (4)

4. Deign to make the NCO climb down (10)

5. In India the big stick is used to make one halt (5)

6. Where trains are made up all day, rings harm its developmen­t (11,4)

7. Piece of broken pot has been thrown on the road (5)

10. By slow degrees moves parts of the foot (6)

13. What’s in the shop is yet completely stationary (5-5)

15. The MO may tamper with the books (6)

16. Meddle with free nitre distributi­on (9)

19. Depicts the even results (5)

20. Land attached to parish church in a single benefice (5)

22. The boss has an animal for breeding (4)

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