CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ducks due to lofted shots by opening batsmen (5) A flower sprang up (5) Erudite speech, one reads (7)

One bent on boozing? (5) A walk in spring (5) Possibly infallible start, in the end (5)

It’s on foot, though a horse is involved (7)

Live at central Tooting with a girl (3) Preposition that can help you make a point (4) Where, in Gulliver’s Travels, Paul’s possibly given thanks (6)

19 In sum, just a dash (5) 20 Good place for a bloke to get a bit of help (6)

Finest of tube stations (4) Chopin piece, a dance (3) Holes in one’s body! (7) Animal found in Ireland (5) Bit of a clever Dick, yet a great composer! (5) Consider a possibly dusty answer (5)

Dialect using two letters or three (7)

In circulation, they’re subject to inflation (5) Puritan, but saucy on the quiet (5)

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She puts £50 on the nail, possibly (6)

Game for a bonehead, being drunk (6)

Any way but north, or so it’s said (3)

Mark and I interrupt Stanley (5) 6

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16 18 19 21 22 From central Spain and Madras, they obviously aren’t all Spanish (7) Genuine right to swill ale (4) In southern Crete, perhaps, is there such service? (6) Tender in a noisy bar? (5) Steal, and there may be an arrest (5)

Bind damaged parts (5) Vehicles for second class road purposes (5)

They get eaten up in the stratosphere (5) Trainee uniform for plain clothes men, that’s clear (5) Maize dished up with a smile out East (7)

Being pious about me is commonplace (6) Nickname for wild brutes? (6) 23

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28 Like the players to watch with some dedication? (6) Sound asleep (5) Slight advantages on a hill, in battle (4)

A little drink is wrong for a party leader (3)