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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 10 May 2006
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Across
1. If you can't borrow or steal a specimen, get out of sight (6)
4. Jack found the answer and was set free (8)
9. Relax and get the champagne ready for drinking (4,2)
10. Unit of currency which is counterfeit? (4,4)
12. Extra broad across the beam (4)
13. Romany spy contrived to follow an American soldier (5)
14. Team put on by those who are affected (4)
17. Nag to use for rearing in the nursery (7,5)
20. Brands which mark nautical circle clubs of course (7,5)
23. A mother and father for the human race (4)
24. What the sad prophet did in the wilderness (5)
25. The desolate Othello (4)
28. Attended to the carpet in preparation for the dancing (6,2)
29. Hastings is the place to find rabbits (6)
30. Final call of the day for mail-van? (4,4)
31. A spanner calling for four hands (6)
Down
1. Rather dull dormitory for lumbago patients (8)
2. Don't stop and pack - leave your cabin for a breath of sea-air (2,2,4)
3. What both the skilled and unskilled carpenter may hit (4)
5. Re-deploy boss far below an ordinary metal worker (12)
6. Polish river with a pronounced smell (4)
7. Oil stirred into French wine is a fiddle (6)
8. Assumed the famous metaphysical poet died (6)
11. Lots of auburn-haired people are agitators for reform (6,6)
15. What dandies are dressed up to get telephone emergency numbers? (5)
16. Invite a gift from the fur-hunter (3,2)
18. Flushed with embarrassment or anger at being half-caste (8)
19. Alienate be having estimated the extent (8)
21. A beer-cask which may be rifled (6)
22. A thick-skinned invitation to use a freephone service? (4,2)
26. Politician joins ambassador to discover the source of marijuana (4)
27. Just light-headed (4)