CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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3 4 Compulsive producers? (6) Generosity with capital? (8) Rose, being so prickly, calls for careful handling (6) A world of information in the geography class (5)

Talk till Tom’s out of breath? (4)

Is such water good for the laundry? (4) Oriental style of seat (4) Go quickly back again (3) Quibble about parking behind the saloon? (4) It upsets me in particular (4) He’s abroad somewhere (9) Can a coat-tail have a touch of colour? (4) Vessels capsized by a terrible gust? (4)

French word for a car test (3)

Fighting the effect of attrition? (4)

The opposite of “hen”, in a sense (4)

Fight expected to start late (4)

Flora’s local associate (5) Ways of inland navigation (6)

What an actress may make so as to charm? (8)

In which to foster timber production? (6)

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Weakens and falls behind after a flying start (5) Think seriously about the chicks (5)

He again is with us (4) Manuscript about the mysterious spirits (5) 5 6

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22 23 Join in silence, initially (4) On Mars, perhaps, one could refuse to be held to it (6) A night in chaos with no loving (6)

A beastly noise, but quiet, at least (3)

He may be cured (5) London’s finance? (7) Sooner than finish nowhere (3)

By joining the jury, becomes criminal (3)

Clever enough to seem right, in recalcitrant fault (6) She was exempt from tax (5)

You can exercise your right to keep it (3)

Ropy effigy? (3)

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32 33 near Trinidad (6) Managed to be a candidate (3)

Adjust so as to steer a different way (5)

They’re taken in rotation (5) Pontoon bridge components (5)

The person you’re seeing may have a heart of stone! (4)

Only one warning in four is heard (4)