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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 26 Oct 2006
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Across
7. Temporary custodian? (9)
8. Challenger from Cheddar eradicated (5)
10. Matrices he uses when making pottery (8)
11. A damaging article written in Iran (6)
12. Colourful note on some old-fashioned advice (4)
13. As detailed description, mine's bad example (8)
15. Girl shows up as a seductress (7)
17. Joins some European explorers' objectives in taking English currency (7)
20. Prisoner turned paler on the outside, exhibiting vitamin deficiency (8)
22. Nothing to add to a plea for help, being indifferent (2-2)
25. Layers making a start (6)
26. A pair confronted with duplicity (3-5)
27. We rag gamblers about their stake (5)
28. US creates some unusual gardening implements (9)
Down
1. Greyhound runs round one (5)
2. A ceded number strangely the base of the decimal system (6)
3. Strong smell of something that may be leaking dangerosly around the pits (8)
4. Bridge-building who surely knows the drill? (7)
5. Composer revealing the heathen in one (8)
6. Line of poetry containing six metrical units of feet (9)
9. Sheep disease or African fish? (4)
14. (archaic) Alderman or Councillor (6-3)
16. Marked by or promising bad fortune (3-5)
18. Was successful, we hear, in te examination of the country (8)
19. More distant, especially in degree (7)
21. (astrology) A person born while the sun is in Cpricorn (4)
23. Parts allotted to ploughmen? (6)
24. Offering fun and gaiety (5)