CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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37 38 Snappy contribution from Murphy? (5)

Where to shoot a vehicle out of a race (5)

Where Americans get cross when drinks are interrupted (5)

Don’t allow extra decoration (3)

He can make the grade (5) Shorten the crossing (7) Historic mines around central Whitechapel (5) Many an own goal by one of the Rovers (3)

Like the effort by everyone supporting the strike (3-3) Gas with me and an old bigwig (7)

Makes low noises (4) Gregory, perhaps, joined by a lesser actor in London (4) United with the right one in a dream set-up (7) Moved upon seeing a strange dove with the tail of a thrush? (6)

As mined in Korea? (3) Can she wail alluringly? (5) Entertaining purveyor of nonsense at the end of the pier? (7)

Said to have stayed sober (5)

A United Kingdom flier (3) Writer who always had a plot (5)

She nags restlessly about an early start (5)

Can this zodiacal sign mean birds? (5)

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16 17 19 Vessel getting past, broad in the beam (5)

In Australia, worn steps (7) A trip on the line in red, possibly (4)

Such a diet presumably has iron in it (6)

Threat by the Italian (5) Language of a social worker in hearty rebuke (5) Jack’s grateful utterance (3) Intellectual, possibly hard boiled leader (7)

Little girl, so how can she be in her dotage? (3) Managed to catch a boy (5) Minced steak? You bet! (5) In making such a barometer, an emperor had to help out (7)