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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 22 Sep 2007
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Across
1. Mailed from foreign depots (6)
4. Deputation dropped on becoming bent (8)
9. Be abnormally preoccupied with something (6)
10. A person who is one-eighth Black (8)
12. Initially a group of fuel producers cope somehow (1,1,1,1)
13. Soft mass of chewed food (5)
14. Declines to set sail (4)
17. Derogatory allusion to elderly persons (6-6)
20. A reduction in intensity (12)
23. Unpleasantly ingratiating in manner or speech (4)
24. Offensive reference to non-white person (5)
25. Composed some lyrical music (4)
28. His career progresses rapidy (5,3)
29. The foreigner you help back into the pub (6)
30. Rate of interest set by Bank of England (8)
31. Transient cessation of respiration (6)
Down
1. In a set manner, without serious attention (3,5)
2. Thrill for Sir Patrick when a girl comes round (8)
3. Presenting few difficulties but not entirely trouble free, as yet (4)
5. Court cards seen on an accursed trip (7-5)
6. Aware of secret circle in pub (2,2)
7. Idealist's paradise (6)
8. Man enters medley (6)
11. Monastic pops seen in any of 32 different directions (12)
15. Sonic, charged, star (5)
16. One of those pressed to make progress on the road (5)
18. Give life to (8)
19. Something designed to assist the memory (8)
21. Shakespeare's fairy seen in dusty corner (6)
22. Schemes including one for open countryside (6)
26. Nicholas I, e.g. (4)
27. Break up sound sleep (4)