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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 12 Jun 2006
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Across
7. Heap, stack or pain in the butt! (4)
8. English getting rich, holding onto and saving money (10)
9. Use deception to get university place (4)
10. Naturally there's no niht-time illumination (8)
11. Racket, possibly from a neighbour (3)
12. It fills the crock at rainbow's end, we're told (4)
13. British banker has a mixture of Italian spices (6)
14. Push behind Bert, maybe (3)
15. Confront steep side of mountain (4)
16. Dice shaken and given sugary coating (4)
17. Finally abandoned need for resin (3)
18. Formerly a help to people up at the pub (6)
20. Serves an unreturnable ball to the champions (4)
22. Drink too much, even as a baby (3)
23. Typical occurrence - used as a legal precedent (8)
25. 'Unarm - the long day's task is done' (Anthony & Cleopatra) (4)
26. Game popular with gunners? (6-4)
27. Tastelessly showy! (4)
Down
1. Freudian term for sexual urge or desire (6)
2. Make stupid with alcohol (8)
3. Put right by a group of monks (3,2,5)
4. A portent we observe on going round the Middle East (4)
5. Disease of the skin (6)
6. Green translucent variety of chalcedony, used as a gemstone (6)
10. Preserve made by a real Madam (9)
13. Mouse substitutes for portable computers (10)
16. Henry VIIIs mother-in-law initially involved with allies (8)
18. Book size - folding sheet 3 times to form 8 pages (6)
19. Let us out about useless struggle (6)
21. Departure covered in second book (6)
24. About to cut and munch (4)