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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 27 May 2013
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Across
1. Difficulties with which one is suddenly faced (Old British) (6)
4. A kind of untanned leather (8)
9. A sugar extracted from wood, used in diabetic foods (6)
10. Orange order embargo, ending Loyalist displays? (8)
12. Gem stone far more preciouis than diamond (4)
13. Henry ____ - founder (1897) of Glen Moray distillery in Scotland (5)
14. Money put up before there's a deal (4)
17. Egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain vines, used for sherbets and drinks (12)
20. A type of pear (12)
23. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or over-ripe (4)
24. Sidle smoothly along a surface (5)
25. Rebuke for returning cakes (4)
28. Woman daring to hide Chinese official (8)
29. Areas I prefer during my coastal walks (6)
30. A critical interpretation (esp. of the Bible) (8)
31. Old relative goes to New York to tie the knot (6)
Down
1. Prplish-black wild grape of the eastern U.S. (3,5)
2. It may be piped by a research department in the money (8)
3. Grating noise from the king cobra (4)
5. Oh-oh, admirers scattered behind swelling (12)
6. Key time to make a challenge (4)
7. Highly prized fur which I hesitate to say, belongs to me (6)
8. Egg-custard topping enough to fool Margaret (6)
11. Calm down (12)
15. Exotic fruit; left two for companion tocut (5)
16. A measured quantity, nothing more, for the horse (5)
18. A breen banana left a worker in anguish (8)
19. Another name for cranberry (8)
21. Your setter - in the morning the very same goes in a tree (6)
22. A 'scrooge' (6)
26. In Canada, teacakes contain dried fruit (4)
27. Williams needs attention, on the quiet (4)