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Double Crossword

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CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. What gearless arrangemen­t will make a barometer? (7-5)

7. She is unbalanced before morning (5)

8. One willing to provide the wherewitha­l for a cattle-shed, we hear (5)

9. Good doctors don’t prescribe such treatment (3)

10. Mere stars will show decoration­s (9)

11. A report will accompany his discharge (6)

12. It moves to and fro to change the points (6)

15. Land-users readjust the washer (9)

17. Friend doesn’t finish floor covering (3)

18. This will stick in the back (5)

19. Ask for supplies to be sent for a number of monks (5)

21. What the judge who announces the length of the sentence does! (5,3,4)

Down

1. Diligent form in which artisans are found (7-5)

2. Didn’t expose three-quarters of the skin (3)

3. Make an observatio­n about what the schoolboy earns (6)

4. Book-keeping establishm­ents (9)

5. Half stir dye about in characteri­stic manner (5)

6. Now is the time to use this (7,5)

7. Part of a caramel one may be used as a first course (5)

10. Make haste before spring to find a blue flower (9)

13. The circus performer is not so wild (5)

14. Scientific apparatus - that’s the snappy answer (6)

16. Make one up in the retinue (5)

20. Suitable charge (3)

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