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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 14 Oct 2007
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Across
7. Situated at the end of a particular slough from which Des vanished (4)
8. ____ ____ Trent from 'The Old Curiosity Shop' (6,4)
9. Part of brass and quartz in clocks (4)
10. Less serious haemorrhage (8)
11. Permit Hal to escape from what can be deadly (3)
12. Like to take first-class return to the continent (4)
13. Comic verse of irregular measure (6)
14. Able to (3)
15. Dickens character from 'Hard Times' (4)
16. Magistrate's bill? (4)
17. Beggar with no place to drink but something to eat (3)
18. Plant about fifty for use in winter (6)
20. A Dickens undertaker (4)
22. Move boat from bank (3)
23. Quickly and without warning (8)
25. Handy point for a listener (4)
26. Unique or specific to a category (10)
27. Remaining in the past (4)
Down
1. Cultural artefacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them (6)
2. Female character from 'Bleak House' (3,5)
3. Synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft (10)
4. Only a poor lake! (4)
5. A well-organised sign we need to to get out the needle and thread (6)
6. Gulp maybe about a note making a serious complaint (6)
10. Dicken's character in 'Hard Times' (9)
13. A character from 'Great Expectations' (3,7)
16. Mister _____ from 'Oliver Twist' (8)
18. Quarter units of electric current for the fens (6)
19. We fall into them by mistake (6)
21. It removes the written evidence (6)
24. Quiet garb for a conceited fellow (4)