CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Argued the cricketer must be seen in action (7) When you’re being formal, do (9)
Turn the small mug round (5)
Am to blame for bringing back from N. Italy (5) Make up for having overcharged? (7)
Say to the chaps to turn it over (7)
Gets level with and produces the gun (5)
18 The police break it open (5) 20 A bit quiet; embarrassed (5) 22 Give way and shut up (6) 23 To show in, I even produced a key (6)
Old soldier his superior officers discharge? (7) Don’t stop to make a fuss about (5,2)
30 Had I not trained myself to be never late (2,4)
He waded, foolishly, right in (6)
Has an impact on that leaves a lasting impression (5)
Determine what the joint share-out will be (5) Sound one out when one’s come in (5)
Took a time, being dead beat, to get dressed (7) The balance of the new rise unpaid as yet (7)
Just a second - hang on! Don’t be so miserly! (5) Will sycophants who do so get nowhere fast? (5) One you fiddle with to open and close? (3,6)
One way or another, ring me 9 13 14 15 16 17 25 27 31 32 35 36 37 39 41 42 43 44
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION DOWN
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12 19
Get out of calling (6)
It was shivering in the end. That’s what made it cold (4,4)
Not revealing that one’s slowing the progress of (7,4) Book in a restaurant that’s accessible (3-2-4)
Are rearranging the roster he’s not imagining it (7) What makes you so hot on acting? (5,5) Thunder “Run away!” (4) Gets out the remnants left standing (6)
Make a coloured holster for the gun (7)
That blessed thing! (6) In need of a tonic, you find ACROSS: 1. B-R-its 6. Reach 9. W-I-pe out 10. La-te-x 11. Snipe 12. Past-a 13. Costner 15. Hem 17. Only 18. De-mur-e
20. B-L-each 22. B-od-e 24. Sip 25. Scorn-ED 26. Bunch 27. Cut up 28. SN-out 29. Sli-pp-E-d 30. Write 31. Ta-X-es
2. R-E-ason 3. Twenty 4. Si-X 5. Deb-ar 6. Rustler 7. Etna (ante) 8. C-upper 12. Peach 13. Combs 14. Sleep M-ewed 18. Dutch 19. Scruple 21. Liquor 22. Bre-n-da 23. De-lu-de 25. S-cop-e 26. Bust 28. Set
EASY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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Related (7) Repugnant (9) Stringed instrument (5) European nobleman (5)
Body of citizen soldiers (7) Antiquated (7) Clergyman (5) Wanderer (5) Female relative (5) Reward (6) Murderer (6)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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31
32 35 36 37 39 41 42
43
Firearm (7) Pub employee (7) Seasoned sausage (6)
Thin on the ground (6) Stratum (5) Wireless (5) Restraints (5) Dirt and filth (7) Endanger (7) Dwarf planet (5) Blacksmith’s block (5) Abundant (9) ACROSS: 1. Trust 6. Vista 9. Tirades 10. Spurn 11. Signs 12. Riots 13. Mislaid 15. Bra 17. Oral Temp 24. Rod 25. Quartet 26. Awful 27. Place 28. Snail 29. Heretic 30. Added 31. Tenon
2. Repair 3. Stroll 4. Tin 5. Valid 6. Vestige 7. Isis 8. Tenure 12. Rifts 13. Molar 14. Salad Seaweed 21. Boiled 22. Trance 23. Merino 25. Quiet 26. Ache 28. Sit
18. Agreed 19. Stone 20. Abates 22. 15. Beret 16. Adept 19. Scour 15. Huron 18. Annul 16. 19.