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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Shakespeare character with

a rod at the riverside (8) 5 Remain in the wrong spot (4) 8 One drink too many? (4) 9 Humble worker for the canine

defence organisation? (8) 10 Immediate bad stain on a

good book (7)

12 Glamour girl whose elastic

has failed? (3-2)

13 Lovely place, this port out

East (6)

15 Was out of the red, perhaps, thanks to those long-legged birds (6)

17 Letter from a tyrant at

headquarters (5)

18 Sign of remustering Corps

10 (7)

22 One of those pontoon bridge

components (4,4)

23 The majority may be toms (4) 24 Forward to some chosen

destination (4)

25 Was his genius merely

relative? (8)

DOWN

1 The finale, we hear, is like

Sibelius (7)

2 Golfing connections? (5)

3 An Irish saint and a first-class

fellow (5)

4 Fruity little diagrams (4)

6 Beat by a recount? (7)

7 Settle a higher bill? (3,2)

11 A department in which to

be expert (5)

12 Soft kind of roll (5)

14 It can help when taking awful pains about the Inland Revenue (7)

16 Cut part of the legs off

thrones? (7)

17 Avoids failures in sport (5) 19 Like a well washed whistle? (5) 20 Search for a verb meaning

“exist” (5)

21 Sort of duck to make a meal

of? (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Famous Shakespeare character (8)

5 Halt (4)

8 Under ten (4)

9 General drudge (8) 10 Immediate (7) 12 Glamour photo (3-2) 13 Paradise (6)

15 Herons, storks, etc. (6) 17 Station (5)

18 Zodiac sign (7)

22 Whist, for instance (4,4) 23 The majority (4) 24 Transmit (4)

25 Great physicist (8)

DOWN 1 Scandinavian language (7) 2 Connections (5)

3 Boy’s name (Irish saint) (5) 4 “Syrup of ---” (4)

6 Thrash (7)

7 Settle the bill (3,2) 11 Expert (5)

12 Musical instrument (5) 14 Pain-killer (7)

16 Curtail (7)

17 “--- and drakes” (5)

19 Not dirty (5)

20 Investigate (5)

21 Crippled (4)

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