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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 17 Jul 2007
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Across
1. Let the diet be seen to materialize (6)
4. Thinking about a jet I once flew when expelling troublemakers (8)
9. Lucy _____, US novelist of no great repute (6)
10. Impresses deeply (8)
12. Francis _____, English mystery writer (4)
13. Edmund _____, English poet and critic 1849-1928 (5)
14. Turkish inat making a contrary suggestion (4)
17. A fitted overcoat with a velvet collar (12)
20. Observing 'queenly' busts at a later time, maybe (12)
23. Irish-born dramatist, author of 'Candida' (4)
24. Graduate's taken on at the lodge (5)
25. Ireland's county of springtime love (4)
28. 'King' _____, an important Mowhawk Indian leader and orator in colonial New York (8)
29. Chinese fruit enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp, often dried (6)
30. Speak as if delivering a sermon (8)
31. English preacher and author - 'Pilgrim's Progress' (6)
Down
1. Thomas _____, US author- 'Legends of Charlemagne' (8)
2. Russian writer of stories, novels and plays, 1818-1883 (8)
3. A lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs (4)
5. I judge 'Oasis' and 'Queen's' unusual elusive qualities (2,2,4,4)
6. Allan ____ - US producer of 'Grease', the movie (4)
7. Washington ____, US author - created Rip Van Winkle (6)
8. Edith ____, English author and poet writing mainly childrens' stories (6)
11. I man Red Cross post at various English folk festivals performed in costume (6-6)
15. Way out drink (5)
16. Horatio _____ - US author of inspirational adventure stories for boys (5)
18. Lytton _____, English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (8)
19. Austrian novice of this appearance (8)
21. Roger _____ , 16th c. author of 'Toxophilus' (6)
22. US filmmaker who with his brothers founded studio producing first 'talkie' (6)
26. Henk _____ - editor-in-chief of Dutch gay magazine ;Gay Krant' (4)
27. Japanese person - excellent character met in Greece (4)