The Scotsman

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 and 5 Actress finds happiness in the Lake District (8,6)

9 I am looking at fashion on the street _ it’s not decent (8)

10 It’s cowardly to shout loudly with cry of pain (6)

12 Workers making no charge for non-manual operation (5-4)

13 These ferries are propelled by diesel nowadays, although sounding manpowered (2-3)

14 Fruit for travelling nomads (6)

17 Street urchin doesn’t stop playing on Xbox (5)

20 Enamoured o’ US acting family (5)

21 Give military recognitio­n to late US formation (6)

24 River for hire on tick initially (5)

25 Asian peninsula popular to visit with feature that’s ace (9)

28 Set in your ways? I turn a revolution (2,1,3)

29 Achieveall-electronic­office,perhaps,with inside cover (8) 30 and 31 Hit waves of blacklegs (6,8)

DOWN

1 and 18 Castle Kennedy family on the run up some steps (6,2,6)

2 Bewail mental torture (6)

3 Final passages brought about by loading fish with arsenic (5)

4 He provokes removal of energy component from police weapon (5)

6 Soldier’s order giving no problems at Specsavers, perhaps (4,5)

7 Most of toy instrument­s seen in inactive state (8) 8 and 23 Haar, wind _ isles suffer about 6th January in the Hebrides (5,3,6) 11 Vegetable’s in the doghouse when little’s changed (6)

15 A speedy animal makes for easy money (1,4,4) ROS SHERARD 16 Bird’s family in two respects (6) 18 see1

19 It’s in broken state, destroyed by pure rain (8)

22 Haunch dish given to dropout (6) 23 see8

26 He gives organ, perhaps, to academic researcher­s (5)

27 PC artist to palm meat (5)

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