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Azed Crossword No. 1753
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Special instructions: Competition puzzle
Send solution and clue to definition asterisked (on a seperate sheet also bearing name and address, securely attached) to Azed No 1,753, PO Box 518, Oxford, OX2 6WX. Entries should be postmarked no later than Saturday January 7. Please include a brief explanation of your clue (one entry only)
The Chambers Dictionary (2003) is recommended but does not give 32, formed with a common affix.
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| Across | | 1 | Whiny leader in league caught by defeat (8) | | 7 | Form of solid graphite in tank is hard (4) | | 11 | Boffin maybe visiting IOW town forgets second name (8) | | 13 | Crazy folk reversed Jock's doormat? (5) | | 14 | Whipped fare, very soft inside, chilled (6) | | 16 | Place retained by lawmaker for Scottish roughneck (8) | | 17 | Sheaths are adjusted in line for launching arrows (7) | | 18 | Indian corporal, one in victory dislodging English finally (4) | | 20 | Revolutionary academic backed Homer perhaps? (6) | | 21 | Miss Grey in Cluedo? No, this is wrong (6) | | 24 | Ligature, considerably less than half of the healing art (4) | | 26 | Midday shellfish meal? Pulling out bale, countrymen chew noisily thus (7) | | 28 | E.g. apes I spy wild in animal sanctuaries? (8) | | 30 | Scoff time, going back? Such tableware might be seen (6) | | 31 | Product of Ciba's not acid (in geological terms) (5) | | 32 | Caught in another trap deer's injured, having fled back in (8) | | 33 | Study source of rennet (4) | | *34 | Slantwise (8) |
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| Down | | 1 | Vanishing ticket source? Undo cost curb, wretched! (12, 2 words) | | 2 | One small number 'crunched' by indefinitely vast one in electronic apparatus (5) | | 3 | Scam gain with these may put paid to Macao savings (4) | | 4 | Felt uneasy about going up in cable-car (6) | | 5 | It's no good interrupting angry viper (7) | | 6 | Like a rare daub - minute bloody circles! (5) | | 8 | Sound of TV going bang? It involves chaps including police force (9) | | 9 | African trees less adaptable as home for primate (7) | | 10 | Elegance in real hair disguised, recognizing pecking order? (12) | | 12 | Quick attack, seizing power (5) | | 15 | Game of forfeits creating positive scars, unconcealed inside (9) | | 19 | Atmospheric phenomena, yellow, fringed by luminous glows? (7) | | 20 | Woman in North America, not NA - er, that's odd (7) | | 22 | Councillor holding strong drink for herald (5) | | 23 | Envelope as a joke containing Anglo-Saxon book (6) | | 25 | Couple entertaining at home like party guests? (5) | | 27 | Bit of nettle coated in nasty acid - it'll sting the unwary (5) | | 29 | Part of Passover meal set disposed of - alas, no more (4) |
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