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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 30 Sep 2011
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Across
1. An office in which little or no work gets done (8)
5. Bleach at the time that it comes in (6)
9. A lock with a dull finish required for the bedroom? (8)
10. A personage of good address (6)
11. Go off and become a cynic, apparently (4,4)
12. Down-at-heel part of Italy (6)
14. Decide against early retirement (4,2,4)
18. Scoundrels creating bad scare when after-dinner sweets are about (10)
22. New sashes for Jenny (3-3)
23. Take a gamble, as busy cartoonists do? (4,4)
24. Pressed on amid dire trouble (6)
25. Unseemly fellow who lassoes a spritely youngster? (8)
26. The church requires him to be sponsored (6)
27. It won't get swept beneath the carpet (8)
Down
1. An Arab or a Jew can make it seem different (6)
2. Character of the phenomena of this world (6)
3. A touching display of affection (6)
4. Venturesome savings group (6,4)
6. Two musical instruments join in the dance (8)
7. All-in fighting (5,3)
8. Tells of a revolutionary Hebridean island set-up (8)
13. A conjurer whose identity isn't known? (7-3)
15. Strikingly good way of dealing with highballs? (8)
16. A compound that can pep up a space-traveller, possibly (8)
17. Banished duke who did wonders for prose composition (8)
19. One can't go right ahead and do it (6)
20. How to make do? (6)
21. Missing artist found in a place unfit for human inhabitation (6)