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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 14 Sep 2006
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Across
1. Solvery grey, Antarctic swimmer known to lacerate bears (9,4)
8. Secondary educational establishment emphasising 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 28 (6)
13. One dragging newly-wed around grand sight in the capital (5,6)
14. Fully rig men to capture a SE Asian forest acrobat (6,5)
17. Tropical rodent (6)
18. Supplied with blood vessels (8)
21. Reveal to a bore, the 1001 abstract intricacies involved in compiling this ... phew! (4-9)
22. A restless five, confidently aggressive (4-9)
Down
1. aka. the African ground pig (4,3)
2. Antelope from Eastern country (5)
3. Brindled grey Canis lupus of North 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 (5,6)
12. The bewildered mad juror, collected his shortened manuscript then joined the rest 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)