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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 11 Oct 2011
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Across
1. Middle-aged Gilbertian sprite transmogrified in a hotel (8)
5. Nazi police surround troops' lodgement - the scoundrels! (6)
9. Ready money just for fine wool (8)
10. Repudiate wind so variable (6)
11. Personal framework hidden in the guilty party's cupboard (8)
12. Where the card player learns his craft? (6)
14. Arranging things behind the instrument I break into song (10)
18. Throws light on fickle Lucie and the tropical fruit (10)
22. If it's auld it's Edinburgh (6)
23. Chaucerian inventor and explorer (8)
24. There's a Dickensian twist to his name (6)
25. Degenerate publicity in decent surroundings (8)
26. Invctive diatribe; read it for a change (6)
27. What remained after the forest fire? (3,5)
Down
1. Lest ancient Peruvians are above direction (6)
2. Diminish a spell of education audibly (6)
3. Count things comparatively devoid of feeling (6)
4. Where the port's pilots are busy with drinks. (17,3)
6. A twin-featured toast is proposed (4-4)
7. A word to the gardener: Forget-me-not (8)
8. For the Chinese student, the study of moral transgression (8)
13. Advice to the salesman to enter the Church (4,6)
15. Corroborates what Goldilocks found (8)
16. Better-class transatlantic water (8)
17. 501 + 6 + 500 finish the share-out (8)
19. Unimpaired in diplomacy (6)
20. Supporting member in the beer to affirm without proof (6)
21. Does joiner's work as tune is changed (6)