The Herald on Sunday crosswords
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Secret local mess after hearing couple neck-and-neck (3,5,2,4)
From a harbour see landing beach (5)
Insect holding back city catch is a specific dislike (4,5)
Points to organ in country (7)
Each half gets back to the Orient (7)
Access – it’s often barred (4)
Medical worker treats hip badly (9)
Carefully kept convinced to step outside (9)
Bloke to become cracked (4)
Young sheep and girl dance (7)
Approaching Reg and Nina in a muddle (7)
A tedious person holding one drink for a native Australian (9)
Hunter of the stars? (5)
Roughly seek rye product for operation (7,7)
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Small digger finding dryer around river (6)
Agreed on a mixed drink (9) Accidental discharge ruins lake with time (7)
Journalist ransacks our bedsit (9) Italian article about tax (5)
Card game grasped by American, a star (7)
Learning about one European river (5) Once more bring together disorderly retinue (7)
Stops concealing fury and puts in peril (9)
Island silicate cleverly set on a slope (9)
Rest all shimmering like stars (7) European hand measurement is hard (7)
Shellfish belonging to us causes uproar (7)
In Copenhagen cyclists’ bureau (6) Sounds like a cow bearing an elk (5) Shakespeare character receives signal, it’s said (5)
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Proficient (7)
Cut roughly (4)
Smoker’s accessory (7)
Soya product (4,4)
Falls spectacularly (8)
Unpleasant smell (5)
Backing financially (7)
Sunday, 16th May, 2021
Sieved fruit or vegetables (5) ___ the Halls, Christmas carol (4)
Connie ___, Polly in Fawlty Towers (5)
Show malicious satisfaction (5)
Object worshipped as a god (4)
Famously ferocious river-fish (7)
Point furthest from the front (4)
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No. 15,570
Really bad, dreadful (9)
High point (4)
Layabout (6)
Beach shelter (3)
Single seat (5)
Shovel (5)
Touch (6)
Prone to fluctuation (2,3,4) Pour through a colander (6) Feeling of having been somewhere before (4,2)
Frown fiercely (5) Resembling each other (5) Nosh, grub (4)
Contents of an inflated tyre (3)
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