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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 11 Oct 2011
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Across
7. Singer and songwriter - 'You Can Call Me Al' (4,5)
8. Clff Richards' birthplace (5)
9. (and 14) Football team nicknamed The Owls (9,9)
10. H.G. - author the 'The Time Machine' (5)
12. Bonnie and ____ (5)
14. See 9 Across ()
16. See 17 Down ()
18. Someone pays out for this final procedure (7)
20. A four-legged animal (9)
21. David _____ (5)
24. It's capital is Porto Novo (5)
25. Administrative HQ of Buckinghamshire (9)
27. A group of eight muicians (5)
28. Scottish town over which a Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded in 1988 (9)
Down
1. Jacob's favourite wife, in the Old Testament (6)
2. In music, the symbol at the beginning of a stave to indicate the pitch (4)
3. aka the shinbone (5)
4. Ian ____ English Ryder Cup golfer noted for colourful trousers (7)
5. 2005 film starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette (2,3,5)
6. See 15 down (8)
11. (and 19) Comic actor and former presenter of Have I Got News For You (5,7)
13. Actor starring in The Moon's a Balloon (5,5)
15. (and 6 down) 2005 ladies single champion at Wimbledon (5,8)
17. (and 16) English actor who became a peer in 1970 (8,7)
19. See 11 Down ()
22. Nocturnal insect with a pincerlike appendage in the rear (6)
23. 1980 BBC drama about a Japanese prison camp in WWII (5)
26. Charlie Parker's nickname (4)