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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 21 Oct 2006
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Across
7. Two as dear as water is charged with carbon-dioxide gas (4,5)
8. Heartless, firm and revolutionary (5)
10. Triangular form on front of building that creates the peak of the roof (8)
11. Blank areas (6)
12. Maltreat fishermen? It's not clear (4)
13. Less than a couple of pints is enough to make a sapper bodily glow (3,5)
15. Secularity thus rejected in Land's initial design (7)
17. Lively when it's ou turn to sing (7)
20. Artistic genius who invented an older sort of cipher (8)
22. Commonly refers to the buttocks in N. America (4)
25. They accept bets when skater comes t grief (6)
26. Hide in order toget free transportation (8)
27. Class of small American birds, chiefly olive-grey in colour (5)
28. An Eastern marketplace (9)
Down
1. Penniless poet seen to cringe (5)
2. Affectedly genteel and hoity-toity (2-2-2)
3. Bed shorter but without foundation (8)
4. A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) (7)
5. Legal officials born between 21st April and 20th March (8)
6. It discourages those who would put off tenancy payments (9)
9. A woman being in charge makes men apprehensive (4)
14. Once possessed sex appeal but now over the hill! (4,3,2)
16. Called meeting for most of nuns' house with newsman, in short (8)
18. Made unfashionable, or obsolete (8)
19. A long racing seigh with a steering mechanism (7)
21. Seemingly good (future) (4)
23. Has a beginning characterized in some specified way (6)
24. Dance around having been thrashed (5)