The Mercury

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 6 Notices compliment­s (7) 7 Being delicate makes father be unwell (5)

9 Jar should hold fire (5) 10 The recipes are exact (7) 12 Harmless during attack (11) 14 Able to change speech by painstakin­g developmen­t (11) 18 When to level things out? (7)

19 Sailor in south east has a steady gaze (5)

21 19’s flower (5)

22 What she got when she married looks fishy! (7) DOWN 1 The result of crying about 21 (5)

2 Box is not overturned under vehicle (6)

3 A theologian will produce more (3)

4 Summary way to cut 10 short (6)

5 Please, teacher, I have a letter (7)

8 Stops and finally takes things easy (7)

11 An insult but not behind one’s back! (7)

13 Servile - like Balkan people? (7)

15 Where the golfer puts his coal? (6)

16 The bowler’s appeal causes a tumult? (6)

17 Admit American general (5) 20 The colour finally preferred (3)

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ACROSS 6 Fervent (7) 7 Kingdom (5) 9 Adder (5) 10 Journal (7) 12 Limitation (11) 14 Destroy (11) 18 Flagrant (7) 19 Submit (5) 21 Tint (5) 22 Fashionabl­e (7) DOWN 1 Danger (5) 2 Maintain (6) 3 Prosecute (3) 4 Seemly (6) 5 Joy (7) 8 Beaming (7) 11 Endurance (7) 13 Feat (7) 15 Infuriate (6) 16 Threefold (6) 17 Near (5) 20 Pig-pen (3)

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