CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS

12 Something from the snack bar — salut! ( 6,5) 13 Want very much to let right into secret ( 6) 14 Observing nothing to dishearten ( 6) 16 Nothing in it: a smidgen ( 4) 17 What Pablo does, when drunk? ( 4,5) 18 Because there’s incessant turmoil, to start with ( 5) 19 Turn to page fifty in the story ( 4) 20 Also moths, unfortunately start eating. It’s tasty ( 9) 22 Hesitate to be terribly rude about figure ( 5) 23 Neglects to attend to erosion of the mountain side? ( 4,5) 27 Round about 1am, sees struggling with an Asian ( 7) 30 Buckle up and make it quick? ( 6) 31 Diced meat and vegetables, partakes of, hot ( 4) 32 A fancy dresser, which is fine, if you’re American ( 5) 35 It flies somewhat faster now ( 4) 36 Drew — and killed ( 4,3) 38 It has saved shipwrecked sailors — a lot ( 4) 39 Knife play, teach yours truly about ( 7) 42 Wine article, badly written, I rejected ( 6) 45 Persuading to distribute half the prize money ( 5) 46 Hurries — hand when nest- building ( 7) 47 Old edifice I manage to protect ( 4) 48 Game birds precluded ( 4) 50 Stop before you make a hole! ( 7) 52 See what could be a key inside ( 5) 54 Talk of winged creature being f ound in river ( 6) 56 After day in France, longing to get back from trip ( 7) 57 Strikes this out ( 4) 59 Ran round the brink and lost one’s footing ( 7) 61 Something the don’t- haves do have ( 4) 64 Requested a new desk ( 5) 66 Wrong to turn and run ( 4) 67 Nearly last groggy case for the doctor ( 6) 69 Getting names wrong, I have a difficulty in remembering ( 7) 72 Punishing the creature for running away? ( 7,2) 73 Criticise, to little son, the ex ( 5) 74 Saddened by act restraining newspapers ( 9) 79 Charge for the company’s time ( 4) 81 Is he fighting the waves? ( 5) 82 That’s a big if! ( 9) 83 Royal one seen at Royal Ascot, perhaps ( 4) 85 Small unit trained, myself, to guard ( 6) 86 Half move to a French city from an Italian one ( 6) 87 Mentioning that one’s losing one’s grip? ( 7,4)

DOWN

1 So, upset again, leave ( 4) 2 Can’t fit into it in one piece ( 6) 3 Figures she’s got a soft heart ( 6) 4 For once, bothered about the amount you eat ( 7) 5 Whisper ‘ Top team’ ( 5) 6 Precursor of yesteryear’s Bow St officer? ( 10) 7 Contract from which a novice derives comfort ( 5) 8 Relax on the podium? No problem! ( 5,4) 9 It’s fragrant, ‘ Nice’, twitches nose that misses nothing ( 7) 10 By half past, work is to end ( 4) 11 Discharged when sober? ( 8) 15 A crooked S in ‘ missing’ ( 6) 21 Taking her back creates a vicious circle ( 5) 24 Fifty and a three scribbled on the skin ( 7) 25 Prefer to take the A5 in, 4 out ( 6) 26 Shaking fist at mum, moves ( 6) 28 Way to pronounce ‘ Schloss’ ( 5) 29 Point to it and you take a pew ( 3) 33 The pairs in fuzzy close- up ( 7) 34 Stopped the old man getting exploited ( 6) 37 Time and time again are manipulated into and pay for ( 5) 40 Weight goes up at first: surprise development ( 5) 41 Maybe E sharp played on the piano ( 7) 43 Children play it. ‘ 19’ hasn’t begun to ( 5) 44 Leant over and told which horse to back? ( 6) 46 Cries of birds, according to the cockney ( 5) 49 Wear for fellow carrying gun ( 7) 51 Is set to go off round about ten, it is ( 6) 53 Need a drink and run inside this time ( 6) 55 Double leg fracture? Nonsense! ( 5) 58 Rate at which new shoots disappear in garden? ( 6,4) 60 A barrier? No, sire ( 3) 62 Lawbreaking that’s running rampant in Central America ( 5) 63 Will your mind signal to you that it’s got one? ( 9) 65 Hurry up and operate the pedal! ( 4,2,2) 68 I’m to chew over the proposal ( 6) 70 So that it’s neat and tidy ( 2,5) 71 Opposes breaks and is obstructing ( 7) 75 When a storm is, are there crosswinds? ( 6) 76 Tried to jump onto the second step ( 6) 77 Open f- file ( 5) 78 PS. Start redirecting back ( 5) 80 Worried stiff? ( 4) 84 What it expects to find in its bowl? ( 4)