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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 11 Mar 2013
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Across
1. 1973 book by Judy Blume about teenage scoliosis (6)
4. A young pigeon turned informer? (8)
9. Two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together (6)
10. (nautical) At the ends of the transverse deck of a vessel (4-4)
12. Made havoc on the cheese-board, perhaps (4)
13. Impetuous; reckless (5)
14. 1984 film based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same title (4)
17. A 1995 novel by Michael Crichton (3,4,5)
20. Story of three families by Leo Tolstoy (4,8)
23. Regarded aas a means of assessing progress (4)
24. Jump when a pistol is fired (5)
25. The protagonist of the film 'Shrek' (4)
28. A heavily onomatoepoic novel by Edgar Allan Poe (8)
29. Weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) (6)
30. Not settled, so not given support (8)
31. Steven King's 1976 novel (6)
Down
1. Courses which are over-emphasized (8)
2. Edward chasing the Spanish girl of high status (8)
3. See couple run out of ceremony, having got married (4)
5. Sounding-out list? (12)
6. 1996 classic novel dramatisation starring Gwynwth Paltrow (4)
7. Group of persons arranged by police for identification purposes (4,2)
8. Rectangular formation iof parallel scanning lines (6)
11. Mostly alien encounters (12)
15. Very pleasing to the eye (5)
16. Archaic former age (5)
18. Tragic ruler who unwisely commanded a territorial division (4,4)
19. Rochester's mate, courtesy Charlotte Bronte (4,4)
21. Just like Feste, to jeer about a good person (6)
22. They step out quietly beside the maple trees (6)
26. Realise the deception (4)
27. Two Scottish jackdaws equal on N.Z. parrot (4)