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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 27 Apr 2009 Title: Budd Lake
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Across
1. Sporadic fight heading south-east, initially (6)
4. A strange baton found in landlocked African country (8)
9. Star, exploding, takes a year to get off-course ... (6)
10. Shredded rare Dutch Edam - it's sweet (8)
12. Rascal losing little money in swindle (4)
13. The allotment is found before a citation's indication - or the citation itself - is cut short (5)
14. Reast from rough seas (4)
17. Brownshirts would never display such an air of the past (12)
20. Just possibly, toe enlargers are available here? (7,5)
23. Cafeteria carrier (4)
24. Attempts (5)
25. A club with taste? (4)
28. Thatcher groupies, in the first place, are entering store (8)
29. 'The Rape of the ____ Women' - Rubens painting (6)
30. So talent must be developed - that's just as important (3,5)
31. Bars getting prizes, reportedly (6)
Down
1. House representative's brilliant crime, netting grand (4,4)
2. Pangolin, a 'worker-consumer' (8)
3. Stone from small workroom (4)
5. May be seen to cut at mad rate across the sea (4,3,5)
6. Stage boatswain's unhelpful self-identification, say? (4)
7. A damaging article written in Iran (6)
8. Sayings, traditional expressions (6)
11. Powerful short-haired dogs, originating in England (4-8)
15. Possible fine would be right, one might surmise (5)
16. Stop case going out East (5)
18. Pronounce as a vowel (8)
19. Without fairness, let verse tell the story of the hares (8)
21. Verbal order to stop troops getting flower part (6)
22. Vegetable worth it's weight in gold, it's said (6)
26. Find the weight of a package (4)
27. A setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows (4)