Manawatu Standard

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

25/8

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ACROSS

2. Had nothing to say as an actor (5)

5. Something to eat, a portion of escargots starters (4)

7. Solicitor-General had an entry as one was an informer (4)

8. It may be lawyer’s business to take part in cost (8)

9. Like a thread that’s felt, main difference becomes apparent (8)

11. Time to go without, if one’s quick (4)

12. It left each gum out of the opera (3,5,5)

15. Those involved in play may get thrown (4)

17. Hard nib’s used to wave it around (8)

19. Where to pay to verify umpire’s decision (5-3)

21. The principal way to convey water to the home (4)

22. It will do nothing for one, getting nothing out of the dole (4)

23. Skin growths have come back, the last being the final blow (5)

DOWN

1. Language to put across, to his confusion (7)

2. From which to drink in a stick-up (3)

3. How quietly man will go round a tree (5)

4. Draconian way to rid Cats of this arrangemen­t (7)

5. Something put on Alpha to provide rest of the letters (3)

6. Sails into the wind, which gets one in stitches (5)

10. Own up to it after turning mad (5)

11. Was neatly put away as one went in crocodile (5)

13. Apes Grinling as a wood-carver (7)

14. Thanks to sharp attack of pain, is getting the flavour (7)

16. Yearned to be put ashore and be lost (5)

18. It is in the fashion of being in quest of something (5)

20. Words signalling one to form a line, so we hear (3)

21. Make a wry face but get the lawn cut (3)

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