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Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By Finnginn
Date: 26 Feb 2014
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Across
1. First off: Middlesex equals trouble (6)
4. Demonstrator of chair, perhaps, newspaperman is working (6)
9. Tell, for example, Women's Institute on board ship heading south (5)
10. Lock up whippersnapper bucking polite refusal (8)
11. Tool used by shoesmith (3)
13. Spineless Rhodesian bank (5)
16. Urgent detectives surround emperor from the East (7)
20. Knackered pursuer, one's taken the lead? (7)
21. Singles' college connections (7)
22. See 3 and 8 (3)
23. Seductress from backward modern city left ancient city Queen (7)
24. King without energy a state (7)
25. Plead with tree grown around Kent (7)
29. Spiritual without leader possessing much land (5)
32. Bars are raised by builders here (3)
34. Spooner's conflicts number gave up (8)
35. State Finnginn's quick (5)
36. Solvers, people and Finnginn together are Middle Eastern (6)
37. Dogged but pure we hear (6)
Down
1. California roll, for example, is Hu's speciality (5)
2. Regretting asking if the gangster is at home via text message (5)
3. & 22. & 30. Chap finds his representation served up in newspaper? (4,3,5)
5. Professional cyclist, more likely than not, is better in America (5)
6. Watches 'Spooks' (5)
7. I moan about girl (5)
8. & 22. & 33. East End favourite replaced a damp shine (3,3,4)
12. Above curve, Handspan? (8)
13. Background noise from programming language centre gets on top of upcoming supporter (7)
14. Man's principal town (7)
15. Get rid of former removal (7)
16. Monotonous work of doctor and topless court official on railway embankments (8)
17. Arid zone an endless desert? (7)
18. Cause to fire initiate (7)
19. Bird's head is downgraded for sauce (7)
26. Hardwood finish on furniture - good French central style (5)
27. Downs salt (5)
28. Light number surrounds column head (5)
30. See 3 (5)
31. Retouch them endlessly in the middle (5)
32. Fetch descendant (3)
33. See 8 (4)
