CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hangs around with thickheaded beastly males (5) Room to spread capes (5) Location of national interest, of course (7) Credit a politician with muscle trouble (5)

Go round to get a garment (5)

A name came up (5) Magician having terrible trouble with security! (7) Short name for a Carmelite centre (3)

In the menagerie, it’s not just a pond (4)

To pile in order to be obliging (6)

Seen to contain five in number (5)

20 Wee drinks around closing time, one imagines (6) General secretary? (4) Still the old-fashioned style of shirt (3)

Tough guy creating drama in the outskirts of Hendon (4,3)

Trembling tree? (5) Macho, but only to a companion (5)

It’s a blow, being dismissed at 150! (5)

Listen fully to anything said (4,3)

Beneath being stood on in the way implied (5)

The place is in sheer chaos! (5)

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