18 GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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Never quite get to the point, yet persuade ( 4,5)
Avail oneself of totally in a way that's helpful ( 8)
Then dropped the squirming wet creature in the pond ( 4) Shoot and you get too close to the fire ( 6)
Be tired, in a way, of Italian food ( 7)
At which one got information directly from the original employee ( 5,4)
Meant somehow to conceal the repair and the alteration ( 9) Determine again to find the answer to ( 7)
When it gets hard to find just what one owns ( 6)
Is going to Wales; was left land Meant I was by myself in the interim ( 8)
Put a mock warning out? surprised at you! ( 3,5) Satisfied I would come back with the news ( 4)
Yes, there is a way to pierce the torpor ( 6)
They don't hide from the rain ( 7) Blurred, which is something of a mystery ( 4,2,3)
Tidied and made a pile from Indulgent, allowed the nine incarcerated to go free ( 7) Embarrassed, steal back to the frontier ( 6)
"Pretty remote", I interposed Reveal the day is near ( 8) An irritability that is found trying? ( 9)
I am ( 4) ( 4) ( 7,2)
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Allow that you give your seat up to ( 5,3)
Look furious, having got a shiner ( 6)
Pressure put on to buy ( 8) Loved making a fuss over a communist ( 6)
On which people clean their feet when in a hurry? ( 4,4)
Start to recover – your sense of touch? ( 4,6)
For the under eleven, diminish The pest is given a leg up, mistakenly ( 6)
Decides to have wooden seats Thanks to having been given ( albeit temporarily) the ability ( 6) The skin wasn't firm, you say ( 5) That's a good one! ( 3)
Not all monsieur caught in the river ( 5) Disconcerted at being dislodged from the saddle ( 6)
Having a job to get correctly placed ( 2,8)
A clever little insect ( 3)
How you said "I've lost two stone"? ( 7)
Is afraid a thousand choirboys have got trapped ( 8) Understand the meaning of "Be rational" ( 3,5)
Hide the drink cupboard ( 8) Do limbering up exercises for a while ( 7)
A clear case for the can: crooked and bad ( 6)
Hint Jack is being hidden up by the clergyman ( 6)
He takes a gun out from a sliding compartment ( 6) ( 7) ( 7)