CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION DOWN
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19 Spattered, the cat ran for shelter (8)
What singers do to find what they have in common? (7,5)
Amused by how it was deflected? (8)
Are out on tip to get on well with (6)
Getting a nervous twitch when hungry (8)
Is it always late when it’s lit? (6,4)
What a job it is to make the conversions? (7) Determined to be first in, present all wrapped up (10) Girl from the outback? (5) Following after a short time, but not feeling well (6) A female with money, by all accounts (3) 21 22
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25 28 29 30 31 33 34 Acted sensibly and made sandwiches? (4,4,4) Know the man is back in the dog-house (6)
A beefy Russian? (10) The queasiness is due to the spleen (3-7)
There’s nothing about trapping the animal (3) Meant to endorse the document enclosed (8)
Be more active when uneasy (8)
Is unwilling to take any further action! (8) Again, names one remembers (7)
He’s back in time to catch it (5)
Payment demanded by the letter (6) ACROSS: 1. I-deal 6. Route 9. S-O-me-how 10. Scrip 11. B-L-and 12. Bo-O-bs 13. Pole-MIC 15. Nil 17. Iris 18. P-raise
20. Circle 22. Semi 24. Hoe 25. Stetson 26. Cr-EC-y 27. Divot 28. A-rose 29. Peerage 30. Sewed 31. Odile
2. Do-Ct.-or 3. A-side’s 4. Lop 5. Me’-doc 6. Robbery 7. Owls 8. Tennis 12. Bible 13. Pinch 14. Litre
18. Part-y 19. Alert-ed. 21. IO-dine 22. Stored 23. Morse-l 25. Score 26. Cop-E 28. Ago
EASY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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17 18 19 20 Advertising for the movement (9)
The device for fruit chopping, I can put into it (9) When a pin’s dropped in, they slither about in their cage (4) Hard to understand a clergyman’s retiring in it (6) When there are revolts, calls and one’s put through (7) In future, somehow fear going in there, trembling (9) Expenses incurred due to strikes? (9)
What you did with the bait the day you fished? (7) The new maid’s left, having been unhappy (6)
She’s not a day over thirty! (4)
Get blazing, attack and shoot (3,2,4)
He must leave here and now, to deputise for (9) Plant of the hour? (4) Promise to drop a pal by the border (6)
The soft-hearted find it unbearable (7)
Not having a prayer in the Miss Elegance competition? (9)
Irrepressible, I get right in among the others (9) Having an unusual bent for every game (7)
Kind, has the dope let off (6) Are little boys unhappy in it? (4)
Not a hand unencumbered to take the weapon (9)
In a last trip round South Africa, he committed the attack (9)
Unconventional (9)
Say sorry (9) Eyelid inflammation (4)
List of business (6) Immoderate (7) Found not guilty (9)
Tired out (9) Ejected (7) Journey (6) Daybreak (4)
FRIDAY’S SOLUTION
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Period of two weeks (9) Fruit (9) Theatrical part (4) Willingly (6) Make believe (7) Flowering plant (9) Manual workers (9) Counsellor (7) Obtuse (6) Continent (4) Relieve (9) Crockery item (5,4)
DOWN
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 16 19 21 22 Deter (8) Rodent (4,8) Impaired (8) Trimmed (6) Brutality (8) Danish capital (10) Map line (7) Reliance (10) Incompetent (5) Mean (6) Animal doctor (3) Anxiety (12) Cake (6) ACROSS: 1. Abort 6. Catch 9. Arrival 10. Elegy 11. Remit 12. Pleas 13. Proudly 15. Bet 17. Rout
22. Lose 24. Eve 25. Cabinet 26. Fatal 27. Trait 28. Atlas 29. Revenge 30. Feted 31. Enter
2. Bolero 3. Ragout 4. Try 5. Filly 6. Caravan 7. Ales 8. Chives 12. Plots 13. Price 14. Ounce
19. Sedated 21. Averse 22. Listen 23. Sesame 25. Cared 26. Fire 28. Age
18. Valise 15. Nin-ES 19. Stain 20. Caches 15. Bison 19. All-ay 16. Tenet 16. Le-t-i-n 18. Vital