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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 03 May 2009 Title: Butt Lane
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Across
1. 1984 film starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as a mermaid (6)
4. Get behind with exaggerated rise in money (8)
9. Use Eastern slate to make gravestones (6)
10. Paradise so long as such animals don't have toothache (8)
12. Resent getting nothing from a diplomat (4)
13. English composer 'Blest Pair of Virgins' (5)
14. Troubles an NCO on certain points (4)
17. Fashionable seaside resort in northern Spain (3,9)
20. Vinyl container covered reels awaiting development (6,6)
23. Very old car has little value with no roof (4)
24. One who rescues himself from debt? (5)
25. Telescopic essential (4)
28. Abnormal disco as I succumb to high acidity levels (8)
29. Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters (6)
30. An emissary of the Pope (8)
31. They may use axes, startng to hurl jugs (6)
Down
1. Thrill for Sir Patrick when a girl comes round (8)
2. British stand-up comedian of the Norman Wisdom genre (8)
3. Decidedly close to victory at the card-table (4)
5. Prepared to act another's part (12)
6. Have a care of or look after (4)
7. Cleaner being carried by the ferryman (6)
8. Sporadic fighting heading south-east, initially (6)
11. A method of writing down ballet movements diagrammatically (12)
15. The currency they had in Hamelin (5)
16. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping (5)
18. Calm down again (8)
19. Courses which are over-emphasized (8)
21. Someone held in bondage (6)
22. Material used to cover a round, sourced from a pig van (6)
26. Kick the car back (4)
27. Cleanse one's body with soap and water (4)