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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 15 Jul 2006
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Across
7. One playing bridge lost his shirt (9)
8. Flower taking a bow (5)
10. Tired of needling, maybe, leaves small firm's staff adrift (5,3)
11. Composer whose works Bach and Elgar take to heart (6)
12. Eastern lady one didn't tarry before (4)
13. Lucid as one could be, however, destructive (8)
15. No ordinary recruit on lawful duty (7)
17. A wading bird about to enter a hellishly deep river (7)
20. Reptile with an instruction to play quietly in a piece of ground (8)
22. Smell of seaweed (4)
25. Turns revolutionary (6)
26. Stimulated by advice given to Mrs. Worthington? (8)
27. Aptitude shown just around fifty (5)
28. Papers abound - let there be no bones about it (9)
Down
1. Eastern instrument to play on stairway! (5)
2. & 16 Down.. A high-rate cast I organised for a novelist (6,8)
3. Saintly girl in the class of 14 (8)
4. Sea-food paid for on receipt (7)
5. Leading racketeer, perhaps (3,5)
6. A relation who may split up the family (9)
9. Asian of sound affinity (4)
14. Fast-moving veronica (9)
16. See 2 Down ()
18. Shrill cacophony in the mews? (8)
19. Apathy I retain however moved (7)
21. Harry turns up requesting silence (4)
23. Nod the head at one point (6)
24. Doesn't make sense in a Wearside setting (5)