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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
12 As often as not, when serving a prison sentence (4,3,4) 13 Back in the lead running on the outside? No (6) 14 He speaks to, muffled by terrible roar (6) 16 Again in a twinned zone (4) 17 Pal who’s a writer (3,6) 18 Containing English word mistranslated as ‘fought’ (5) 19 Sun as well as a beach (4) 20 On the way, train crashes. Isn’t harmed (2,7) 22 From the old days, a staple in Italian kitchens (5) 23 However and wherever it’s packed (2,3,4) 27 Funny, farcical claim made against firm (7) 30 Bill keeps key within reach, worriedly (6) 31 Draw the entry area, say, to a home (4) 32 Coin a word for ‘pulverise’ (5) 35 Forming part of her entourage at this point (4) 36 He doesn’t believe cosseting cold is bad (7) 38 Act that has a twist to it (4) 39 Expand for a while (7) 42 Grins at small boy (6) 45 Open up, man! (5) 46 Is he tinkering with a Strad? (7) 47 Intend to make plain I am leaving (4) 48 Pay attention to the word of warning (4) 50 Get in touch with? Can’t possibly in bed (7) 52 Goes ahead with lesson disrupted when pupil left (5) 54 For two days one’s running around, getting drenched (6) 56 Rest took day off and wandered (7) 57 You get half a grand (4) 59 Turn down the job after a month (7) 61 For a while in half term, I am (4) 64 How seasick passenger feels when it’s stormy (5) 66 Tell yarns, knocking back drinks (4) 67 Pull out of bed and ridicule (6) 69 Donning, though it’s tiresome (7) 72 Boarding — it’s growing late (7,2) 73 Stroke of luck for out of work repairman? (5) 74 Make up a brief composition about pet (9) 79 Speed with which hairdresser gives cut? (4) 81 So be right beside on the wagon (5) 82 Having had powwow about, gave to (9) 83 In my view, it’s heavy work (4) 85 Egg is nice scrambled with it (6) 86 Shine to entice good man inside (6) 87 How quickly you waken both sleepers? (2,3,6)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 12 As often as not (4,3,4) 13 Refusal (6) 14 Speaker (6) 16 Zone (4) 17 Chummy correspondent (3,6) 18 Fought (5) 19 Beach (4) 20 En route (2,7) 22 Spaghetti, etc (5) 23 However (2,3,4) 27 Funny (7) 30 Fee (6) 31 Pull (4) 32 100 pence (5) 35 At this point (4) 36 Unbeliever (7) 38 Twist (4) 39 Expand (7) 42 Grins (6) 45 Surgical knife (5) 46 Violinist (7) 47 Intend (4) 48 Intellect (4) 50 Get in touch (7) 52 Edges forwards (5) 54 Very wet (6) 56 Wandered (7) 57 You (4) 59 Turn down (7) 61 Period (4) 64 Not smooth (5) 66 Whirl (4) 67 Ridicule (6) 69 Eroding (7) 72 Boarding (7,2) 73 Smash (5) 74 Make (9) 79 Cut (4) 81 Not drunk (5) 82 Bestowed (9) 83 Weighty book (4) 85 Egg on (6) 86 Sheen (6) 87 Very quickly (2,3,6)
DOWN
1 Couple (4) 2 Romance (6) 3 Polish composer (6) 4 Understudy (5-2) 5 Intelligent (5) 6 Not needing cooking (5,2,3) 7 Logbook (5) 8 Detonating (7,2) 9 Filling up (7) 10 Ticket (4) 11 Activities (6-2) 15 Mend (6) 21 Loop (5) 24 Big film still (5-2) 25 Bleach (6) 26 Went Dutch (6) 28 Perfect (5) 29 Donkey (3) 33 Closing securely (7) 34 Supplies (6) 37 Heraldic emblem (5) 40 Pursue (5) 41 Springy (7) 43 Damp (5) 44 Nauseate (6) 46 Penalised financially (5) 49 Current of air (7) 51 Hurting (6) 53 Moment (6) 55 Put off (5) 58 Stress (10) 60 Look at (3) 62 French painter, Edouard (5) 63 Wading bird (9) 65 Not by sea (8) 68 Clever (6) 70 Flavouring (7) 71 Vegetables (7) 75 Salad ingredient (6) 76 Snooze (6) 77 Not stale (5) 78 Intended (5) 80 Disbursed (4) 84 Encounter (4)
DOWN
1 Mean to capture one of the duo (4) 2 A F-fine Romance! (6) 3 Feature work within of famous composer (6) 4 Understudy to Laurel: a big noise (5-2) 5 With bright sun, taking public transport back (5) 6 Not requiring cooking and one’s hungry (5,2,3) 7 For the logbook, I have a dry container (5) 8 Making a big thing of the detonation (7,2) 9 And I pack in wood, filling up (7) 10 Dad’s got son a ticket (4) 11 Leaving with offspring after the happenings (6-2) 15 Fix the salesman with a look (6) 21 A loop, or ring, through the nose (5) 24 A big shot in Hollywood (5-2) 25 At the moment that it is put into bleach (6) 26 Went Dutch with mum. Awfully dear (6) 28 Perfect for most ladies after adjustment (5) 29 In the form of a small furry animal (3) 33 Shutting up with marine fish (7) 34 Supplies rushed on board (6) 37 Top with heraldic emblem (5) 40 Run Charles to earth (5) 41 Not stiff in the least: malleable, I note (7) 43 One gets in extremely damp (5) 44 So know it will be revolting (6) 46 Penalised, we discover, for saying (5) 49 Drink in the air (7) 51 Reaching, again, out for. Really wanting (6) 53 Additional time (6) 55 Put off having dead tree felled (5) 58 Stress ‘Nineteen at most’ (10) 60 Regard as a vowel sound (3) 62 Painter who got up two hours before noon (5) 63 Bird that will canoodle with its beak? (9) 65 Lover is travelling — and not by sea (8) 68 By installing shower in, showing intelligence (6) 70 And I notice filling is liquorice flavoured (7) 71 What Martian gardener grows in furrow in his planet? (7) 75 Vegetable is strangely hard to swallow (6) 76 Having been disturbed, can’t father get back to sleep? (6) 77 Impertinent as Daisy is? (5) 78 Planned to give false name time after (5) 80 Met the cost of installing one in home (4) 84 Rendezvous with and pay up (4)