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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 28 May 2007
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Across
1. Defence chops perhaps take in heavy guns (6)
4. Abnormal disco as I succumb to PH values below 7 (8)
9. A blemish on the skin formed before birth (6)
10. Special footwear like s stringed loop racket (4-4)
12. This head, with accent, could be antipasto (4)
13. Dragged to the altar? (5)
14. ' .... and The Detectives', book and film (4)
17. Invaders are rampaging alongside a mountain range (6,6)
20. A joke I yell in my most regal manner (12)
23. Expression of dissatisfaction when first part of the official paper has been destroyed (4)
24. Contraction of Well's manuscript (5)
25. A little drink up in Northern Italy (4)
28. Unusually successful song with widespread popularity and huge sales (5,3)
29. Sticky position for man or beast (6)
30. (archaic) Make children (8)
31. Clever small animal with cropped tail (6)
Down
1. Support for the Royal Mail? (8)
2. X-ray unit not green, though it could be (8)
3. Stoutly content to look out for custom (4)
5. When bewildered, Sam contrives to lean to the right (12)
6. Low country (4)
7. Form intrigues in an underhand manner (6)
8. Blows up, but is all right within seconds (6)
11. A somewhat cretinous Poe forms a counterbalance (12)
15. Apply a remedy or provide a gift (5)
16. Order used in the dictionary (5)
18. Mutilate a late tail to conclude element of a series (8)
19. Alongside canyon, journalist avoided (8)
21. Lets us out about useless scuffle (6)
22. Moved forward by leaps and bounds (6)
26. An inn in some Eastern countries that provides accommodation for caravans (4)
27. (maths) hyperbolic cosine (4)