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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 24 Mar 2013
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Across
1. Burns's runaway rider goes on ahead (3,1,7)
9. Finish up, or give us a song; here's your backing (9)
10. Sound the strings of (a string instrument) (5)
11. Turns out to steer erratically around five (6)
12. Thus packing cases were the making of the old philosopher (8)
13. Where Bunyan's hero was despondent in Berkshire? (6)
15. Joins experts on the ambassador's staff (8)
18. Sent about ten cents; the matter is settled (8)
19. A stage construction of semi-precious stones (6)
21. Transatlantic page sounding a warning to shipping (4-4)
23. Winter wear in Northern Ireland (6)
26. Dance at the infernal half-way house (5)
27. Confession of inabaility from the handyman, poor beggar (9)
28. One over the eight for the mathematician (5,6)
Down
1. The varied uses of an Attic hero (7)
2. Little Margaret is more than half crazy (5)
3. Precious stone found beneath geological layers by artifice (9)
4. Closely allied in breaking apart (4)
5. In the main, they are towers of power (8)
6. Up and down it turns around to keep the chopper going (5)
7. Retributive justice makes sin seem out of place (7)
8. A strange attitude or habit (8)
14. Was she fired with affection by a bright young spark? (3,5)
16. Heavenly accompaniment for the French fried? (5-4)
17. Common grass in earlier connection (8)
18. Bluster misconstrued as comparatively cunning (7)
20. Elves and fairies persist with a new spell (7)
22. Stimulus created by ill-fitted footwear (5)
24. Seek out a piece of harness (5)
25. Low joint where the young may be seated (4)
