CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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37 38 1 2 4 Mistakes by sleepy headed mouthpieces (5) Directorial meals? (5) Keeps on about an explosive piece of shrapnel! (5) A question of world health (3) The doctor’s a bit of a fool to enthuse unduly (5) Decreed dramatically? (7) In sport, it’s no long shot (5) Prepared to be sought, perhaps (3)

A unit’s crafty contribution in space (6)

Strips off for an exposure (7) Departure from a line in the reduced text (4)

Haul back out of the garden (4) Men take time to get households established (7) Saint due to be hidden (6) Has she vowed not to take orders? (3)

Giant canned potato centre (5) Passes over wild regions (7) Search and rob of a weapon (5) Beat, but less than instantly (3) River providing one with a unit of electricity (5)

Such charges may disturb submariners (5)

Wound a hotheaded wild lass (5)

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There’s many a snowstorm at Epsom! (5)

Form of needlework one may get hooked on? (7) Aristocrat with no right to be 5 6

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20 terribly old (4) Pictures taken lightly (6) Food for a chap going to South Africa (5)

To drop an apple core in the dirt would do it no good! (5) An exclamation from Sir Galahad (3)

Worked out the figures about mid-January indeed! (7) An element of distinction (3) Sounds vibrantly happy (5) Equine refusal? (5) Confusion gives me a new angle (7)

Robbery by some atheists (5)