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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Does it make one headstrong? (10) 14 Ripped? Bother! That’s a great blow (7) 15 It means there’s to be no loitering in the passage (6) 16 Caution about entering tunnels (6) 17 Paid for having knocked unconscious (4,3) 18 As per arrangement, providing weapon (5) 19 Required to sanction (4) 20 It’s easy to relax in, when I have tea outside (5) 21 Therefore be right off the bottle (5) 22 They are almost all ridiculously jovial (6) 23 Informer who’s a plant (5) 28 Turning right back, puffing chest out, do exercises (7) 30 Thing you read in the newspaper (7) 33 Black vase I got rid of, had polished up (9) 36 Delete to turn previous X into aU (6) 38 Fight to keep trespassers off your land (5) 39 Music for the demo (5) 40 Seek to find the era (6) 42 Beat about the bush or bushes (5) 43 Watch out! Motor fuel is volatile (7) 44 Cut back again to the gunman (6) 46 See that half are disinclined (4) 49 Actors taking part in launch (4) 51 For an American woman, being in the UK, perhaps (6) 53 How staggering drunk holds something giving support? (7) 55 Punch that got the title (5) 59 After school, go off and lumber with (6) 60 Hearing crack, stop (5) 61 Outside, to report on for a newspaper (5) 62 See as road rage out of control, at first (6) 63 Sadly, leave no part untorn (9) 65 Trees found by the sea: Scandinavian (7) 66 Lots amiss, in her case (7) 70 George, possibly, is of mixed heritage (5) 71 Taking the two back again is a nuisance (6) 73 Sneak thieves do (5) 75 Right hand is holding, to begin with (5) 80 Mumble something insulting (4) 82 Send to — and it comes back (5) 83 Single, spoiled, restricted when one got a wife (7) 84 Cold and tired out, gets commendation (6) 85 Thinking fool is about to commit an offence (6) 86 Questions one shoots at time and again (7) 87 Mutual regard for each other (3,7)

DOWN

1 Introduce subject of said item of jewellery (6) 2 Myself, I have tiny amount to be swallowed for headache (8) 3 Something prickly on back of book? (5) 4 Fall for a migrant (7) 5 Going by book, chopping, I sear to cook (6) 6 Remained in force Sunday — also day after (5) 7 Threw out, caught, is tucked into by poor fellow (6) 8 He’s playing cricket, crazy guy! (7) 9 No longer feels — like corresponding? (5,5) 10 Extra small and trim (5) 11 An accomplishment, sure, transplanting parts of face (8) 12 He’s over the top. Old (4) 24 There’s little point in artifice (7) 25 Mark is twenty (5) 26 Terribly upset. I got duck in. Pathetic (7) 27 All the same, it is one way (7) 29 Topic is ‘The Male in You’ (5) 31 Called, by the English, ‘grazing land’ (5) 32 The green light, for a performer? (4) 34 Romance with a female: beautiful (6) 35 Smile at ‘Imbibing royal tipple’ (4) 37 Said to have located and seen (7) 41 Playing dice (loaded) (7) 45 Petty, having go at chum (6) 47 Horrible, awful flu he caught attending (7) 48 Flute suitable for a bambino? (7) 50 ‘Dilettante’ is, to a degree, true. Needs training (7) 52 Boy a mother had (4) 54 Fly from Sussex resort by river (5) 56 It has shoes and stockings right inside (5) 57 At this point in the reign (4) 58 Turning door key, worry (5) 60 Energetic person setting the game alight? (4,2,4) 64 Stop for a break, taking a shower (8) 67 I allowed tots to play around with something dangerous (8) 68 It’s a travesty, child dear: a shambles (7) 69 Employee went ahead and coped with (7) 72 Walk by. Sheep bleat at, disappearing (6) 74 Lied to about having worked hard (6) 76 Having to do needlework is a pain! (6) 77 Tatters, on lead finally, is pulling (5) 78 Heraldic symbol of top mountaineering family? (5) 79 Dart after the sun-bird (5) 81 Returning at two fifty, making a lot of noise (4)