CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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1 2 Lower to the sea bed, strangely enough (6)

An easy victory for the pedestrian (8)

Civil War general’s anger at not being backed (6) Birds ask us out (5) Uncle Fred’s musical symbol (4)

Thanks to an MP, apply force (4)

An otter’s lair in Northolt (4) That backward boy (3) Abraham Lincoln initially as murder victim (4) Slavonic river? (4) Advertising, etc., in favour of keeping things moving (9) Politician’s treatment centre at central hospitals (4) Fully centralised by November, but of no consequence (4)

Less than a siphonful (3) Now it can be a word of warning (4) Unhappy when left in a sticky situation (4) Excessively light-headed, the worker can handle it (4) State the chief foregone conclusion (5)

Plays the banjo to get drinks on the street (6) Bullfighter who possibly orated some words (8) Charlie’s darlings? (6)

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Misquote Oliver? (5) Lamb creating a record by possessing a uniform (5) 3 4

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15 16 18 20 21 22 23 How a swot pulls up (4) Formal procedure for a healer of the sick (5) Muscular power transforms some of the feeble (4) The place in front is just right (4,2)

Pass on the story and make it real (6)

A piece of cake, we hear, for a girl (3)

A bit on the side (5)

The C.O., we hear, is a bit of a nut (7)

Border of Bethlehem? (3) Over there in the canyon (3) A base Shakespeare role (6) Singing boatmen’s river (5) Seedy Dickens character (3) Nutcracker container? (3) In a cylinder it moves to different 25 28 30 31

32 33 points (6) Early riser (3) Armies of innkeepers? (5) Colin Dale’s girl (5) Being cheerful makes me sorry? Not so! (5) Something to play, for it means wealth (4) Mete out what is suitable! (4)