CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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1 2 Goes slowly, like doctors out to get you fit anew (6) Hardly a filly, dear fellow! (3,5)

Being talented, Joe and Ted are about to make a fresh start (6)

Point a fellow out a bargain (5)

Crowds having a bit of fun during May (4)

Being entitled, he has a posh car (4)

She has to live on a ship (4) Like archaeological work (3) One makes this successfully (4)

Feathered, they skim the water (4)

How to greet a friend with a drink (9)

The importance of communication (4)

She was carried on with, in the cinema (4)

Blend number 1009 (3) Seize and put right in the bag, excitedly (4) Going out of turn, Henry may make the long one (4) Does such mining have its seamy side? (4) Pearl’s mum is grey but beautiful (5)

They can fit very nicely, back to front (6) Pugilistic cowboys? (8) They’re on target to reform a sinner (6)

DOWN

Fido shows there’s nothing in chewing a chop (5) Creature nowadays having a red back (5) 3 4 5 6 9

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18 20 21 It’s nourishing to consume around mid-October (4) Artist taking ages, perhaps, to get to Land’s End (5) Subject to contingency, being informal (4)

It may show to what degree one is worthy (6)

In just one way, it’s underfoot (6)

In the main, it’s edgy (3) Talk of Romeo appearing in a sort of toga! (5) Claimed to be curative (7) Odd rhyme from a short person (3)

Doctor a Yankee for being dehydrated (3)

The state Reg is in (6) Love of Hawaii (5)

In a stern position, one over 22 23

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30 31 32 33 the eight? (3)

Could it be worn in a hospital bed? (3)

Where, out East, smartly to cut the tail off a pony! (6) Incurably snappish dog? (3) Files a raw beginner may get to pass (5)

Longed to show a bit of panache at the grand finale (5)

The smallest number left for the Orient (5) Geometrically, it has its point (4)

It’s good to be precise (4)