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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 24 Oct 2011
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Across
7. The state capital of Iowa, USA (9)
8. and 12 Actress best known for the shower scenes in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (5)
9. Medal awarded for valour in the German armed forces (4,5)
10. Plant whose varieties include Jacob's ladder (5)
12. See 8 ()
14. The explosive death of a star (9)
16. Artistic composition of various different materials stuck to a surface (7)
18. Nelson's flagship in the Bttle of Trafalgar (7)
20. Type of mammal whose name is derived from the Greek for 'little purse' (9)
21. The county town of County Clare (5)
24. Italian island at the southern entrance of the Bay of Naples (5)
25. Large ape found only in Borneo and Sumatra (5-4)
27. In the Old Testament, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac (5)
28. Light metal used for drinks cans and cooking utensils (9)
Down
1. and 5 First president of the U.S.A. (6,10)
2. Sultanate whose capital is Muscat (4)
3. The seventh sign of the zodiac (5)
4. Temperature scale formerly called centrigrade (7)
5. see 1 ()
6. 2005 Guy Ritchie film starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta (8)
11. and 19 Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (5,7)
13. Warm ocean current of which the North Atlantic Drift is an extension (4,6)
15. Country whose mountains include the Great Sphinx (5)
17. Jose Maria, Spanish golfer who won the US Masters in 1994 and 1999 (8)
19. See 11 ()
22. Character in Greek mythology who flew too near to the sun (6)
23. Garden ornament introduced into Britain from Germany in 1850 (5)
26. Longer of the two bones in the forearm (4)