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QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Office worker (9)

10 Dupe (8) 12 Pubs (4) 13 Dangers (6)

14 Large house (7)

15 Forebears (9)

17 Mistaken (9)

18 Breathes out (7)

20 Rural (6)

21 Settee (4)

24 Follower (8)

26 Easily-duped (8)

28 Roster (4)

29 Native American dwelling (6)

31 Loot (7)

34 Authority (9)

36 Lie (9)

38 Alligator pear (7)

39 S American river (6)

40 Travel permit (4)

41 Meagre amount (8)

42 Gradual increase in loudness (9) DOWN: 1 Guess (8) 2 Having pleasant views (6) 3 Extremely hungry (8)

4 Song-words (6)

5 Facial hair (8)

6 TV advertisement (10)

7 Interweaving (7)

8 Rainbow colour (6)

11 Strange (7)

16 Choose (6)

19 Lift (5)

20 Regret (3)

22 Lubricated (5)

23 Very small (6)

25 Diva (5,5)

26 Jewel (3)

27 Cut glass (7)

30 Traveller (8)

31 Jumper (8)

32 Heating appliance (8)

33 Boating event (7)

35 Gain (6)

Complete failure (6) The East (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Doesn’t admit one misses (6,3)

10 Get upended, open and run out (8)

12 Spoil a table (4)

13 Don’t forget to ask the buyers to return the article (6)

14 Within a couple of days, the fruit became mottled (7)

15 Management course (9)

17 Kind, though an oddball (9)

18 Getting a beating for sticking together (7)

20 Tell the one about the salesman and the teablender again? (6)

21 The pasteboard ones (4)

24 Turned inside out, showing the rhyme with a coloured border (8)

26 Signs at the bottom, putting with the bunch of roses (8)

28 Has won, after a struggle, by a point (4)

29 Having broached, was listened to (6)

31 Most unpleasant, as I soon found out myself (7)

34 Was quite unaware one was useless, creatively (3,2,4)

36 Had hallucinations, as carpenters are wont to do (3,6)

38 The language of the two men! (7)

39 Turning it round is laborious (6)

40 Motion that creates a hoo-ha (4)

41 Not bad, but not the fastest runner on the track? (8)

42 Tick off when you come to the party in

jeans? (5,4)

DOWN

1 Got angry and terribly rude when in a flap (6,2)

2 As a boy, become proficient in (6)

3 Have the fellow call from outside (8)

4 Try hard to find a vein (6)

5 The dunces do better than, on paper (8)

6 Handles re-ordering and generally helps (5,1,4)

7 Fill the vacancy for a temp? (7)

8 The band later played the number in it (6)

11 Showing skill in finding where you live (7)

16 Rang him a month back, about (6)

19 It’s hard to get back (5)

20 Stick with him (3)

22 The company is in the red? Just the contrary, I believe (5)

23 With the artist in spirit (6)

25 Keeping one’s word and being available if needed (8,2)

26 Object – that’s as far as you can go (3)

27 In short, be moved when one takes the trouble to (7)

30 Subdued and shaken, talked to (8)

31 Not a prodigy and it’s hardly surprising (2,6)

32 Runs in, out and about, for instance, making certain (8)

33 Among those, I sorted out the fifty most pious (7)

35 The man turns on the woman, to one’s consternation (6)

36 Step inside, turning right (6)

37 Thought “I won’t turn it on” (6)

SPORT

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2023-03-18T07:00:00.0000000Z

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