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Crossword

2233: Clutching at straws!

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

The unclued lights, either individually or as a pair, are of a kind. Ignore one accent.

 

Across

4 Read tea-leaves with nettle and flour ingredients (11, two words)
12 Rejected English found in pithy sayings (6)
14 Silent block (5)
19 Spare book (7)
21 Pay some Brazilian temp (4)
24 Ex-giant, literally (4)
25 Sarcophaga May left out (7, hyphened)
30 Farrier’s requisite to catch brownie first (7)
31 HM by empty taxi-rank (4)
32 Sailor’s confection for seabird (7)
34 Trees from eastern railway company, once (4)
35 Payment from a Spielberg remake, we’re told (7)
37 Manoeuvres involved spy round boundaries of Lesotho (5)
40 Climbing without a track to follow (5)
41...













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