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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

12 Make known you’ve added to the chart (3,2,3,3) 13 A short note about the clergyman (6) 14 Are worried by child and argue with (6) 16 Is it a nuisance for the pantomime dame? (4) 17 A rebuke for giving an interview? (7-2) 18 A number, alas, sent back the healthy food (5) 19 Raise by fifty-one feet (4) 20 In random survey, notice and stop (4,5) 22 In good French, is identifying the shaggy creature (5) 23 Altered cue form in script (9) 27 Going to island church, on a whim (7) 30 Definitely, I require key to enter (6) 31 Tax comes to double figure (4) 32 Jack is Aries: volatile (5) 35 The onion is a vegetable (4) 36 Flip over one page, then second, to ‘vegetables’ (7) 38 In the competition, run beside one (4) 39 By good luck, the barrel is in front (7) 42 Say, in your hearing, ‘a sure thing’ (6) 45 Sparkled as you sharpen to a point (5) 46 A drop in one’s stock (7) 47 Again in cheek (4) 48 Pronounced drop in rank (4) 50 Panic, stowing first of emigrants in with cargo (7) 52 A carefree ‘Come off it!’ (5) 54 Awful noise made with a fiddle (6) 56 Careers and has run into self, turning (7) 57 Eat very little, though weighing quite a lot (4) 59 Leaves where there are not trees (7) 61 Fast tempo beat (4) 64 A little electrical trouble (5) 66 The sign is an orb, guys (4) 67 A lot of — or it could be one or two (6) 69 Bring to light and unceremoniously run bloke in (7) 72 Fire flickering, cider poured, producing Asian food (5,4) 73 Inclined to make the antelope start running (5) 74 Coining, somehow, to get by, as assumed name (9) 79 Flash a smile (4) 81 Animal got into (having taken top off) ice box (5) 82 I swear off love, myself. It’s exasperating (9) 83 How long it takes to get back issue (4) 85 In front of, be pro English (6) 86 Complete with 50% interest-free distribution (6) 87 But it’s not that easy for a slimmer to forgo! (5,2,4)

DOWN

1 Having backed up car, sound happy (4) 2 Female should have resisted (6) 3 Jab needle into repeatedly. It’s painful (6) 4 Think mirrors do (7) 5 The fellow in charge is mad (5) 6 Not working and that’s not permissible (3,2,5) 7 Why an accountant is put to use (5) 8 Possessed of good physique, as Jerry is not? (4-5) 9 Shows anger around fifty newlyweds (7) 10 Highly improbable? (4) 11 Toes the line, as do children in school (8) 15 Back from dieting, is light (6) 21 Tool found in the hangar (5) 24 Look good on the plumper figure squeezed into (7) 25 Dig hole first, in shade (6) 26 Heaps of small nails (6) 28 Nag wandering about outside in open ground (5) 29 Animal is caught doing (3) 33 Item of furniture not for the nudist (7) 34 Does he mess about with clay? (6) 37 Thin layer he put on the outside (5) 40 Sound one out when one’s come in (5) 41 For a long time weep. Tune in is moving (7) 43 Is it, to this day, producing liquor? (5) 44 Sweet to the fellow — at a price (6) 46 Funny old man made the distribution (5) 49 Keep one’s distance (7) 51 Banks on good harvests (6) 53 Cut he had on jaw (6) 55 Large instrument requiring room with space (5) 58 A royal, but not Charlotte (4,6) 60 For an offence, dad was banished from Spain (3) 62 To defraud, talk European into (5) 63 I came back having got date wrong: wasted (9) 65 Heard scuffling outside the home and got set (8) 68 Meant tying up a number — mad (6) 70 Really good one. A smasher (7) 71 Insist on all but a thousand men joining a service (7) 75 Wild animal, Cleo, mad to escape (6) 76 Weight is put up by dessert. That’s a warning (6) 77 Set up, they lost — he is grouchy (5) 78 Making clear it’s six and six pence, old money (5) 80 Propose to order up (4) 84 Man who made the piano forte (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

12 Make famous (3,2,3,3) 13 Clergyman (6) 14 Talk sense to (6) 16 Pull along (4) 17 Rebuke (7-2) 18 Health food (5) 19 Raise (4) 20 Random survey (4,5) 22 Buffalo (5) 23 Wedge-shaped characters (9) 27 Whim (7) 30 Certainly (6) 31 Levy (4) 32 Jack up (5) 35 Vegetable (4) 36 Swedes (7) 38 Competition (4) 39 Good luck (7) 42 State positively (6) 45 Sparkled (5) 46 Lineage (7) 47 Curb (4) 48 Layer (4) 50 Cargo (7) 52 Frivolous (5) 54 Scam (6) 56 Moves very fast (7) 57 Nibble at (4) 59 Abandons (7) 61 Beat (4) 64 Brief (5) 66 Sign (4) 67 Digit (6) 69 Reveal (7) 72 Asian dish (5,4) 73 Rested against (5) 74 Assumed name (9) 79 Ray (4) 81 Big container (5) 82 Exasperating (9) 83 Period (4) 85 Previously (6) 86 Whole (6) 87 Very easy (5,2,4)

DOWN

1 Happy sound (4) 2 Battled (6) 3 Sew (6) 4 Ponder (7) 5 Demented (5) 6 Not working (3,2,5) 7 Reason (5) 8 With good physique (4-5) 9 Sees red (7) 10 Lofty (4) 11 Toes the line (8) 15 Light (6) 21 Aircraft (5) 24 Enhance (7) 25 Blue dye (6) 26 Heaps (6) 28 Open country (5) 29 Domestic animal (3) 33 Cupboard (7) 34 Mess about (6) 37 Thin layer (5) 40 Sound (5) 41 Hundred years (7) 43 Yet (5) 44 Sticky sweet (6) 46 Meted out (5) 49 Aloofness (7) 51 Harvests (6) 53 Badly cut (6) 55 Musical instrument (5) 58 Potato (4,6) 60 Offence (3) 62 Defraud (5) 63 Very thin (9) 65 Stiffened (8) 68 Of the mind (6) 70 Humdinger (7) 71 Ensure observance (7) 75 Feline animal (6) 76 Poster (6) 77 Irritable (5) 78 Very bright (5) 80 Propose (4) 84 Sound amplifier (4)