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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 18 May 2007
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Across
1. Marked by friendly companionship with others (6)
4. Big bang experts who believe in fragmentation (8)
9. Stingy type accommodating old sailors in the novel (6)
10. Italian port going for a song (8)
12. Quick blow delivered with a whip (4)
13. Bolt, having quietly cut off top of shrub (5)
14. A Billy Bunter type hilarious activity at Greyfriars (4)
17. Caused a shocking death (12)
20. Rosette marks unusually fine achievement (12)
23. ...... Rocco (with Peter O'Toole in 1980 film 'Stuntman') (4)
24. A belief in forgotten ethics (5)
25. A setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows (4)
28. Final stages of an extended process of negotiation (8)
29. An isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water (6)
30. Sort of attest that is converted into soapstone (8)
31. They may use axes, starting to hurl jugs (6)
Down
1. Metallic lustre found on minerals closely associated with Goethe (8)
2. Administer baptism (8)
3. Smart fellow! (4)
5. Player not quite at the rear (5-7)
6. Ameliorate (4)
7. (Judaism) 7 days of mourning after death of close relative (6)
8. Golfer's food processor (6)
11. Half a dozen at top whack? (3,2,3,4)
15. (archaic) Spread by scattering (5)
16. Profundity in the moral state (5)
18. Authenticate as a notary (8)
19. Young hares in their first flush (8)
21. Traces wrongly directed supplies (6)
22. Keep up criticism that might get under onre's skin (6)
26. Extreme tightness, as with nerves (4)
27. Otherwise quite exposed (4)