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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 12 Sep 2006
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Across
1. Silvery-grey Antarctic swimmer known to lacerate bears (9,4)
8. Secondary educational establishment emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college (7,6)
9. Animals very much wanted to follow water, we hear (8)
11. Gangster - one's put off raising his surname, over a sort of woolly material (6)
13. One dragging newly-wed around grand sight in the capital (6,5)
14. Somehow, fully rig men in order to capture the SE Asian forest acrobat (6,5)
17. Tropical rodent (6)
18. Supplied with blood vessels (8)
21. Maybe reveal to a bore, the 1001 intricacies involved in compiling this puzzle - phew! (4-9)
22. A restless five assemby, confidently aggressive (4-9)
Down
1. aka The African ground pig (4,3)
2. Antelope from eastern countries (5)
3. Brindled grey Canis lupus of N. America (6,4)
4. Big guns about - it's hardly done! (4)
5. South-east coral variety, producing fish (7)
6. Aquatic, carnivorous mammal, to deplore, alas (7,4)
7. Label swallowed by rodent providing quantity of electromotive force (7)
10. States of mind discussed as if they were places (11)
12. The bewildered, mad juror collected his short manuscript and joined the others for the parade (4-6)
14. Fault to find diversely in a blunt and direct manner (4,3)
15. Seasoning mainly left out of a foodstuff (7)
16. Tallest living quadruped, from the savannahs of tropical Africa (7)
19. Position of authority in Sedan, perhaps (5)
20. Large, burrowing rodent of S. America - highly esteemed as food (4)