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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 31 Oct 2011
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Across
1. Richly embroidered yarns for sound high living? (4,7)
8. Comfort for cat soon to be embroiled with lion (11)
11. Hot gun damage? (4)
12. Spotted silent Victorian kids as expected (4)
13. From Sheikh Ali fastened on to Mahdi's successor (7)
15. In a deep whirl allowed to reduce (7)
16. Disaster whose survivors got through a two-by-two entrance (5)
17. Foot's clobber? (4)
18. Wife of Osiris rises in Cotswolds (4)
19. An emptiness to shun (5)
21. Looks at raw material as a disfiguring feature (7)
22. As Hunt told the Sherpas, a fine to do! (5,2)
23. She follows sub privately (4)
26. A bed of rock under the window (4)
27. Stole axe, put in a frenzy to remonstrate (11)
28. Unlimited state of what may 22-10 (5-6)
Down
2. A bit of a night prowler (4)
3. Captain's escape order from blast of fire (4,3)
4. Advice to count (4)
5. Withdrew weary with Communist around (7)
6. 'Unarm - the long day's task is done' (Anthony and Cleopatra) (4)
7. Playwright will brandish weapon with a point (11)
8. A spread that's said to put a smile on our faces (5,6)
9. Optimistic order to eschew mortal talk .. . . (5,3,3)
10. .... by one who hopes to inspire in this way? (11)
14. A shocking sort of wire in being? (5)
15. Classic style adopted by an old columnist (5)
19. Seamy opening a member might slip through for cover (7)
20. Way the carrot was suspended mad Ned glad (7)
24. In tax levies lies the core of many revolutions (4)
25. Painful example of 21 (4)
26. Knockout for wild aunts who lost head (4)