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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 26 May 2006
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Across
7. Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent (4)
8. Oyez, enrol a high flyer to examine our ultra-violet protection (5,5)
9. What we put on the plate when in church (4)
10. Greene in undertaking to solve practical problems (8)
11. The moon's increase in phase (3)
12. Very big-hearted, yet indifferent (2-2)
13. Rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure (3,3)
14. Pout and make a sad face (3)
15. Rustler represented by top barrister (4)
16. Praise-up with two parts (4)
17. Parisian street of sorrow? (3)
18. A loud laugh suggestive of a hen laying an egg (6)
20. Seat right beside until now (4)
22. The cauldron into which much of our cash goes (3)
23. Record holder for the manicurist's clients (4-4)
25. Do this up, when angry (4)
26. A driving force (10)
27. Prepare hastily for an impending exam (4)
Down
1. Fruit that's bright outside, extremely dull inside (6)
2. An open fabric of string or wire woven together at regular intervals (4-4)
3. Expel from a revolution, eg (3,7)
4. French cathedral town - birthplace of Toulouse Lautrec (4)
5. Secondary schools in Paris (6)
6. With a rod, try to find crumbling timber, caused by fungus (3,3)
10. Making woman, babling about nothing, dry up (9)
13. He was responsible for the Nautilus (5,5)
16. Deflect attention away from something (8)
18. An appetiser consisting of a thin slice of toast spread with caviar (6)
19. Attachable (4-2)
21. Quarrel results when priest heads industrial conciliation body (6)
24. Ancient Italian deity in human shape, equivalent to Greek satyr (4)
