The Post

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1. It’s about having a look at a live export maybe (11) 6. With which to bore the lot, by the sound of it (3) 8. Coxcomb, we hear, is at the top of the wave (5) 10. Unfastened belt and clued bunk a different way (9) 11. River found in returning to the French (4) 12. Cotton cloth taken from beach in Otaki (5) 13. A pigeon getting over dock somehow (4-4) 16. See no end of risks taken by mouths (7) 17. Business centre at the Vatican, say (4) 18. Steer the children back to it (4) 19. Cause agitation by being cheeky: rub the wrong way (7) 21. How can lass rest with the night sky overcast? (8) 23. Force one to lie about one’s representa­tive perhaps (5) 26. Young creature that may loaf around (4) 27. Let breath run haywire with chest pain (9) 28. It may be the fad to send one off one’s rocker (5) 29. Method under which things are in progress (3) 30. Restraint shown in lying-in (11) DOWN 1. Pope’s letter to cynic a cell is prepared for (10) 2. He has full powers to train people, tiny though he may be (15) 3. The prospect may be dismissed at a glance (7) 4. Dance, flavour of which comes to nothing (5) 5. Uses money overseas with COD arrangemen­t (7) 6. Call plover ‘Thee’: a change, when in a hopeless muddle (3,4,3,5) 7. Vein of ore soundly put on board (4) 9. Wrongdoing is up to the knight (3) 13. Book of verse may be restarted (7) 14. Money orders for Central Europeans, one is told (7) 15. Ten upset by sickness in which property is tied up (10) 19. It is like robbery, in the main (7) 20. French roll taken with vivacity by revolution­ary (7) 22. Cross-stroke on letter one shoots up (5) 24. Aries turned up to spoil things (3) 25. Demonstrat­e in what manner sulphur comes first (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Compliment­ary 8. Redundantl­y 12. Reveal 14. Tinsel 16. Polite 18. Sloops 19. Speedomete­r 23. Preternatu­ral Down 1. Boar 2. Sped 3. Signal 4. Depart 5. Stet 6. Pray 9. Envelop 10. Lissome 11. Plus 12. Rope 13. Act 15. Ill 17. Elders 18. Simian 19. Sure 20. Eats 21. Tout 22. Roam

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