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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 26 Sep 2007
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Across
7. Confusion characterized by lack of clarity (4)
8. Put up more wallpaper or streamers (10)
9. Vivacity shorn of it's metropolitan status - hurrah! (4)
10. Certain to be successful (4-4)
11. Fish looked sound (3)
12. Intend to refer to (4)
13. Those who speak of a crime novelist? (6)
14. Welcome accorded to Maria? (3)
15. It turns with a change of diet (4)
16. Make progress by crawling, perhaps (4)
17. Feel unwell, you say. It's the drink! (3)
18. Promise to give cover (6)
20. Register the trainee first (4)
22. Consumed but not all eaten (3)
23. Chartered surveyor full of frenzied desires (8)
25. A woman cleaning fish (4)
26. Press ahead developing points of attack (10)
27. Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat (4)
Down
1. Native to or inhabiting the sea (6)
2. Military squad lose last character - born to be prisoner (8)
3. Where something was nurtured in its early existence (10)
4. Not the only shipping area, whatever the dictionary says (4)
5. Hospital with ideal prescription for salt (6)
6. Cuts can be made always in ocean-going craft (6)
10. Employed by officials for a short time, I had come to be crabwise (9)
13. Mostly transmitted lawyer's words, omitting introduction from West Africa (10)
16. Mistake, only one admitted by Company Sergeant-Major (8)
18. Charge to employ after getting a double century (6)
19. Let saliva drivel from the mouth (6)
21. The main sandwich filling in the North-east (6)
24. Battle in France right amongst a climbing plant (4)