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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By ozer85

Date: 30 Oct 2017 Title: Down Under

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Across

1. Shock and fur! Rabbit murdered by Geoffrey’s ancestral blade (5,9)

10. The ball’s bowled from here, a rocket... Not out! Dropped! (6)

12. After the interval, final thwack of wood (4)

13. Last batsman involved in good middle Test: the stuff of legend (6)

14. Make a run as extreme wide cut to rope's boundary (5)

16. Close one side of the ground (3)

17. Player not overly involved, but adds to total passively (5)

26. Regular says “cheers!”, produces leftovers (5)

29. Provoke a supporter? It might be necessary to keep cool! (3)

30. ‘Not out’ decision earned with block (5)

35. Old playboy wins heart of colourful Aussie bird? (4)

37. Method of dismissal audible: man sent back caught, as you see (6)

38. Police detective pursues nothing of value - sometimes it’s the only way to get a result (9,5)

Down

2. Honest old English captain drops staff (4)

3. An unexpected triumph: catching century-maker's central to cack-handed demise (6)

5. Regret giving amateur over, having lost more than half of a match (3)

6. Passes judgement in overseas territories, with Uruguay taking first place (6)

7. Lacking aim, middle-order fills a gap (6)

9. Essential to lose a match to yield a deposit (4)

11. Spooner removes Rooney’s locks? Now he sells hair-loss treatment (5,5)

12. “The new ball hit me, old thing!” says Blowers, agitatedly delivering famous cricketing commentary (3,8,7,3,7,6)

15. John leathers first two balls... (3)

18. ...Six! Six! tail-enders go big! (3)

19. Local does almost half the batting side’s work (3)

20. Two baby marsupials (the first missing a chromosome) at last called “Skip” (3,4)

21. Majority of Caribbean cricketers follow uneventful over out of Berkshire town – it makes for slow progress (8)

22. Drop opener the old way, to add a bit of colour (3)

24. Run one before duck in Olympic site (3)

27. Ache badly, netting half-century with yours truly at sunrise, or thereabouts (6)

28. The game’s in the balance, but many ways to snatch single (6)

31. Low-scoring shot from batsman, idly edged England opener in pursuit of damaged urn (6)

36. Bird from Australian ‘Neighbours’ adds a little fruity ornamentation (4)

37. 19 and 30, for example – site of England cricketers’ most combative performance? (3)