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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Labour leader in a bay for the recess (6)
4 Light tin initially discovered by the French (6)
7 Male with sort of white fluid (4)
8 Ride Celt somehow abandoned (8)
9 Strip for doctor, Eastern, on board a French ship (7)
12 Unusual part of good documentary (3)
14 Popular supporter with time for baby (6)
15 Affair, dull, revealed with hesitation (6)
16 Getting nothing new, I left (3)
18 Engineers with inspector showing regret (7)
22 Piece of good fortune making us reel before autumn (8)
23 Courageous man giving the woman oxygen (4)
24 The rat turning out to be a menace (6)
25 Poisonous dye lad spilt (6) DOWN
1 Confession needed to gain entry (9)
2 Exceptionally cool fur, extremely useful, having varied hues (9)
3 Duck with deer I disturbed (5)
4 Dog left with small ringlets (5)
5 In pain, I left river (4)
6 Union leader surrounded by
50 detectives, easy to understand (5)
10 Restaurant user having row with the queen (5) DOWN:
11 Celebrity grabs one from step (5)
12 Need month off when recovering (2,3,4)
13 Room one Conservative used after party - a sleepingroom (9)
17 One royal quiet about one from the Emerald Isle (5)
19 Accurate former law (5)
20 It’s lubricated for leader of orchestra incredibly idle (5)
21 Lazy person who is greatly admired, say (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Recess (6)
4 Wax cylinder (6)
7 White nutritious fluid (4)
1 Lamp post, 5 Palm, 8 Nail, 9 Fast food, 10 Fatally, 12 Spill,
13 Robust, 15 Bishop, 17 Peter, 18 Cheered, 22 Ice cream, 23 Oval, 24 Tent, 25 Mastered.
1 Long for, 2 Moist, 3 Offal, 4 Tosh, 6 Abolish, 7 Model, 11 Loser,
12 Shine, 14 Between, 16 Paddled, 17 Paint, 19 Homes, 20 Rover, 21 Term.
8 Dilapidated (8)
9 Strip (7)
12 Strange (3)
14 Child (6)
15 Substance (6)
16 Nothing (3)
18 Regret (7)
22 Piece of good fortune (8)
23 Chief male character (4)
24 Menace (6)
25 Lethal (6)
DOWN
1 Access (9)
2 Vivid (9)
3 Duck (5)
4 Ringlets (5)
5 African river (4)
6 Readily understood (5)
10 Restaurant user (5)
11 Step (5)
12 Recovering (2,3,4)
13 Large sleeping-room (9)
17 Relating to Eire (5)
19 Precise (5)
20 Lubricated (5)
21 Lazy (4)