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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 13 Jun 2006
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Across
1. Fruit with yellow flesh - related to custard apples (6)
4. Poetic Indian greeting, a prelude to activity - what's funny in that? (8)
9. Solo performance to end shortly - relax (6)
10. Issues (8)
12. Encircle, as with a belt (4)
13. Tear cried around mid-afternoon (5)
14. Bebe singularly a goddess (4)
17. Central to the summer solstice (12)
20. Strengthening a foundation (12)
23. Look up! Derek is in the money in ancient Greece (4)
24. 'The ____ Suspects' - 1991 film (5)
25. King over the East missing an omen (4)
28. Abandoned bowling that yields extra (4,4)
29. Mixed breakfast cereal (6)
30. Powerful spring snares with teeth -it prangs unwary prey (3,5)
31. Cosy little place for retirement (6)
Down
1. Maybe a gym ploy, having more than one partner (8)
2. Extend out, somehow, in pre-Tudor times (8)
3. Western country dance not used by cheese-makers? (4)
5. I can find no pure idea on the origins of languages spoken in Europe and Asia (4-8)
6. Does Maggie wish they would dry up? (4)
7. Where motors are assembled in Norway (6)
8. Value fools to a point (6)
11. Would have been gainful employment in Oliver's era (7-5)
15. Important fish of the family Scombridae - served as steaks (5)
16. Penny is not common to depict on canvas (5)
18. Grown-up children in paper (3,5)
19. Middle-men a long time since perhaps (8)
21. A leg bowed outward at or below the knee (3-3)
22. (slang) Technical expert engaged in research (6)
26. On which the gentleman captures a pair of ducks (4)
27. Uncovered what is socially acceptable in the end perhaps (4)