The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Quick Crossword
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Small dish for cigarette butts (7) Distant view (5) Arrives (5) Repulsively indecent (7) Stretchable (7) In bronze medal position (5) Chest, strongbox (6) Duffel-coat fastener (6) Watery (5) Forgiving (7) French wine-producing estate (7) External (5) Dish of mixed leaves (5)
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One who lives austerely (7) Homo sapiens (5) On edge (7)
Old farmers or royal attendants (6) Go to see (a person or place) (5) Ostensible (7) Advanced (5) Letters from devotees (3,4) Sporting error (3,4) Hold spellbound (7) Berkshire town (6) Speeds (5)
Give way or surrender (5) Actor with a background role (5) 1 5 8 9 10 11
Don’t follow orders, then cry, given E in homework (7)
Hut to kick hard (5)
Jumping bail, I must make an excuse (5)
Studio for late developer; that is right (7)
Always a heavyweight football team (7)
Low Church instance of loitering (5) 12 14 18 20 22 23
Pelted in street by one on back of moped (6)
One grows flowers (6)
Tory changes new test for garments (3,2)
Almost rise with longing for opaque paint (7)
Tread heavily in river, burst (7)
Protest by bishop leads to discharge from the army (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 15 16 17 18 19 21
Despair! Soiled nappies (7)
She accepts fashionable lustre (5)
British tilers coming out to show indignation (7)
Hankers for tales out East (6)
Smile when catching right fish (5)
Round ring, nothing less menacing (7)
Grating end of Cheddar, put in mince (5)
My one opal improves on exhibits here (7)
Outside old castle without a decorative disc (7)
Her best formula for effervescent powder (7)
Reg’s so upset by monstrous woman (6)
Crime in the paper (5)
Hole in organ is for loop of rope (5)
Brief film role came to nothing (5)