The Brain Teaser
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ACROSS
Pencilling the figure in while speaking (8) Fancies mother's coming round again (6) Once more attack drink, not wanting to (7,4,4)
Reads desultorily first the Continental articles (7)
For a time, worried about it being counterfeit (7)
Embarrassed by evening (8)
Follow the girl to quarters (5)
Binds when the rose-pink ink goes and spills (5)
Set out to cycle round the base (8)
Many leaves having fallen right inside (7) He makes jokes (to put inside it?) (7)
As a hereditary tendency to cowardice does? (4,2,3,6)
One repeated the figure (6)
For instance, back in Denver went berserk and exacted retribution (8)
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How dull the coroner's court was? (6) Quickly put a label on: “Everybody at work” (2,1,6)
Put back the gun, love; they're not game birds (7)
Turn up the radio, playing music (5)
Delay having half the pine trees outside felled (7)
She's hidden it in the middle of the granary (5)
The senior boy turned out to have done the repair (8)
Mad when no longer allowed to be a swinger! (8)
Rude but funny poem I have written about a drunk (8)
It's flashy and common to chuck it about (9) Keep extra quiet to start with (8)
Set and waiting (7)
Look for a drink, say, and something to eat (7)
The boy, where he should be sleeping, gave animal imitations (6)
Turn into an even riotous meeting-place (5) It's tip-top in the Indian island (5)
ACROSS:
DOWN:
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers from 1 to 9. There’s no maths involved – solve the puzzle with reason and logic!
Gentle
Moderate Across
1 Exclusive news story (5) 6 Exhausted (3,2) 9 Immature (7)
10 Colour (5)
11 Broom of twigs (5) 12 Godly (5)
13 Ten-sided figure (7) 15 Weaken (3)
17 Cupid (4)
18 Hat type (6)
19 Fruit (5)
20 Man's name (6)
22 Jetty (4)
24 That woman (3) 25 State emphatically (7) 26 Colliery worker (5) 27 Ancient artefact (5) 28 Emerge from an egg (5) 29 Wool fat (7)
30 Cant (5)
31 Secret hoard (5)
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2 Move swiftly along (6) 3 Musical dramas (6) 4 Play on words (3) 5 Particle of sand (5) 6 Egg white (7) 7 Sediment (4)
8 Weather line (6) 12 Strength (5)
13 End of life (5)
14 Cringe (5)
15 Bulgarian capital (5) 16 Army chaplain (5) 18 Hall or lobby (5) 19 According to reason (7) 21 Venerate (6)
22 Easily bent, supple (6) 23 Puts up (6)
25 Fiend (5)
26 Unit of length (4) 28 Belonging to him (3)