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ACROSS
Left to Southampton
FC? (4,4)
Catch on a small branch (4) On the wrist, it can be worn between the hands (4) Judge suitable times for tea, perhaps (8)
Maybe a girl’s hotheaded in a pretty big way (7) Sounds a big gun in the church (5)
Dole out some subs twice! (6)
Put in a glass case! (6) Trouble the lancers can deal with? (5)
Build the latest hotel with unobtrusiveness (7) Poet in the gravy (8) Do soldiers, being this, see nothing in breaking the law? (4) The part said to be the whole (4)
Like a bighead roughly treated (8)
DOWN
1 Preserved the best when shown the way (7)
2 Allude in freer style (5)
3 Suggestions possibly put aside? (5)
4 Consumes a lot of steak mince (4)
6 A thingummy with shelves (7)
7 Like a colourful newcomer (5)
11 One can get less for pieces of land (5)
12 Credit a person with being an old witch! (5)
14 A regular army one? (7)
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23 Axe held unsteadily as one breathed out (7)
The children point Barbara out (5)
Very close to legless? (5) Less money for a debtor? (5) A branch member (4) QUICK CLUES
ACROSS Helmsman’s left (4,4) Small branch (4) Sleeve end (4)
Assess (8)
Fairly big (7) Clergyman (5) Lookalike (6)
Flask (6)
Seethes (5) Furtiveness (7) English poet (8) Illegally absent (4)
SATURDAY’S PUB QUIZ SOLUTION: 1. C: Eskimo/Arapaho; 2. A: Seven hours; 3. C: Cabbage; 4. TRICK QUESTION: Daytona Beach is in Florida; 5. C: Emmerdale;
6. B: Ye; 7. A: Stakar Ogord; 8. C: Slag; 9. C: 17½-10½; 10. C: 1988; 11. B: Machine Gun Kelly; 12. C: Kobe; 13. A: Zoe Ball; 14. A: Boon; 15. B: Suede; 16. B: 1937;
17. B: Guiding Light; 18. A: Susannah Constantine; 19. B: Mile 22; 20. A: Fenland, Cambridgeshire.
24 A quantity (4)
25 Heavily beaten (8) DOWN
1 Preserved (7)
2 Allude (5)
3 Notions (5)
4 Consumes (4)
6 Portable stand (7)
7 Verdant (5)
11 Water-girt areas (5)
12 Hag (5)
14 Livery (7)
16 Breathed out (7)
17 Infants (5)
19 Close-fitting (5)
20 Inferior (5)
21 Arm or leg (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: ACROSS: 7 Contract, 8 Away, 9 United, 10 Impair, 11 Belt, 12 Evensong, 14 Pressure, 18 Oath,
20 Boring, 22 Cobalt, 23 Cede, 24 Napoleon. DOWN: 1 Lounge, 2 Statutes, 3 Handle, 4 Attire, 5 Camp, 6 Nation, 13 Snowball, 15 Rooted, 16 Urgent, 17 Escape, 19 Tallow, 21 Item.