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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 12 Oct 2011
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Across
1. A concertina reserved for those who write about the performance (5-3)
5. A coin's tossed into a chance building (6)
9. Everyone's getting blown up but there's nothing to worry about! (4,4)
10. Great heart removed, and is all for nothing (6)
11. Don't you believe it? This is something you won't give (8)
12. Directions costly on how to make oneself lovable! (6)
14. How to propagate carnations and add another six to a score (3,3,4)
18. Magistrates should show themselves so as to be ready for anything (4,2,4)
22. The staff of life may be apt to snap (6)
23. Gracious! That's how 'Adam Bede' was personally signed (2,6)
24. The type to have the right slant (6)
25. Had a big blow-out, due to William? (8)
26. Lodgers who don't pay for their keep as a rule (6)
27. Did old Lamb write with such an implement in such a beastly place! (5-3)
Down
1. The swimmer I put about (6)
2. She's called to make a personal statement on behalf of 24 (6)
3. The logger whose work was to cut in twain (6)
4. Noting but the best, but it wasn't Hobson's selection (4,6)
6. Fixed up heavy guns over insidious danger (8)
7. Brave little Diana going back after some concoction of Pinter (8)
8. When hands have downed tools Lucifer will flare up (8)
13. Sit at shady place and smack your lips over it (1,5,4)
15. Throwing out hopeless pilots? (8)
16. Give a kiss to overlarge copper before he's a goner (8)
17. A region I'd turn over with severity (8)
19. Two tyros disrupting Meet? I demand information (4,2)
20. How the issue is expected to develop (4,2)
21. Numbers may take away life? (6)