Cape Times

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

7 Strange bachelor activity in the ballroom (5)

8 He ran to different unnamed player (7)

9 After a month the editor made military progress (7)

10 Stagger round the capital of Portugal and drive back (5)

12 See

3 Down

15 See 20 Down

18 Loose garment needed for a spell at work (5)

19 Show resilience when tied up again (7)

21 See post diverted to one producing original lines (7)

22 It goes down well as one of the Elgar Variations (5)

DOWN

1 Profession­al movements will produce preferment­s (10)

2 Fashionabl­e southern trading centre (5)

3 & 12Ac Cod, initially! (4,2,8)

4 Cope with an extract from myth and legend (6)

5 Kind of house for a pension (8)

6 Fellow allowed to produce a string of beads (7)

11 Could they be nonprofess­ional university lecturers? (3-7)

13 Fastidious neckwear will show refinement­s (8)

14 Gave the meaning of French conclusion in the document (7)

16 This may need a warrant for a period of repose, we hear (6)

17 Softly use encouragem­ent to remove impurities (5)

20 & 15Ac Stock Market account? (4,2,8)

QUICK ACROSS

7 Smell (5)

8 Shake (7)

9 Beware! (4,3)

10 Watchful (5)

12 Risky investor (10)

15 Backward (10)

18 Slack (5)

19 Obscure (7)

21 Protection (7)

22 Pinafore (5)

DOWN

1 Parallel (10)

2 Automaton (5)

3 Threesome (4)

4 At rest (6)

5 Narrated (8)

6 Things (7) 11 Horrific (10)

13 Belongings (8)

14 Blows (7) 16 Haunt (6)

17 Woo (5)

20 Absent (4)

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