CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

7 Backlash about musical section (12)

Crowds at stores, we hear (6) Cuts pinch in ship (5)

Runway where I part, sir? Doubtful (8)

Cunning leader abandoned demo (4)

Tommy therefore included fable (4)

No longer playing a part that’s demanding (8)

Dreary song in Agadir, generally (5)

Travelled around, though badly routed (6)

Different leg, home game showing old sculptures (5,7) 8 9 10

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DOWN

1 Importance of object in religious building (8)

Vegetable in small dessert (4) Keep page next to book (8) Comfortable about weapons (4) Partisan reformed by candidate (8) Gardening implements on garden pipe, we hear (4)

Hoped sir could get into shape (8) Serve up rat pelts on these (8) One’s cast as troubled European noble (8)

A little crude liver in food shop (4) Reading through poem, maybe novel (4)

Fruit unpleasant, by the sound of it (4) 2 3 4 5 6

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ACROSS

7 Backlash (12)

8 Crowds (6)

9 Bargains (5)

10 Landing place for planes (8)

Bridge’s curved span (4)

Ancient story (4) Compelling (payment) (8) Dreary song (5) Journeyed round (6) Parthenon friezes (5,7) 13

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DOWN

1 First concern (8)

2 Murphy, tattie (4)

3 Boil (fruit) with sugar (8)

Pistols, for instance (4) Ambitious (8) Gardening tools (4) Ball‑shaped body (8) Large flat dishes (8) Italian noblewoman (8) Speciality food store (4) Jane Austen novel (4) Citrus hybrid (4) 4 5 6 11 12 14 17 18 20