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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 14 Sep 2006
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Across
1. 1937 film comedy with William Powell & Myrna Loy (6,7)
8. 1970 Hammer horror starring Peter Cushing & Kate O'Mara (7,6)
9. An area protected from direct sunlight in Germany (8)
11. Design for a military display (6)
13. Moves in a clumsy wooden manner (11)
14. Machine to automatically record votes (11)
17. 1982 comedy film about an unemployed writer. Starred Richard Pryor & Jackie Gleason (6)
18. 1981 horror movie about 5 college students in a Tennessee wood - Bruce Campbell (4,4)
21. Biographies by Plutarch, about pairs of Greeks & Romans. Used by The Bard in some plays (8,5)
22. Song sung at many Western-style weddings in Japan, originally in 'The Maid of Milan' (13)
Down
1. 1957 romantic comedy- Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn - shown in UK as 'His Other Woman' (4,3)
2. As far as can be seen I'm left over with it (5)
3. 1942 movie with Hedy Lamar & Walter Pidgeon - a racist and immoral tale of an African love triangle (5,5)
4. Fought over a matter of honour? (4)
5. Cut off confession of extreme tardiness (7)
6. 1963 WW11 film about allied POWs escaping from 'stalags' - Steve McQueen & Richard Attenborourgh (5,6)
7. 1991 comedy fantasy about a 'speaking' roadside sign and a wacky weatherman - Steve Martin & Sarah Jessica Parker (1,1,5)
10. Ouch! As sheer intrusion goes, the police are probably only doing their job (5,6)
12. 1990 movie of small-town Texas life. Sequel to 'The Last Picture Show' - Jeff Bridges & Randy Quaid (10)
14. Beats as heavy rain starts to fall (3-1-3)
15. Clyde, for example, has cowl over chimney (7)
16. Beat bounder thus when leader's out of the way (7)
19. A muted colour, mainly green or blue, used in tweed and woollen clothes (5)
20. 1988 US comedy about women entering the FBI Academy - Ellie de Witt & Janis Zuckermann (4)