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Across
| 1 | | Fail to win a seat when lacking a
decisive policy? (4,7,3,6) |
| 12 | | They
don't like people to find Mother's
pains unusual (12) |
| 13 | | "Bear him to the rock
******** and from thence Into
destruction cast him"
(Shakespeare - Coriolanus) (8) |
| 14 | | Robbers employed by chiropodist? (8) |
| 15 | | Giving new assignment to find true
position (12) |
| 16 | | Boy's ashore, initially, when things are quiet (3,6) |
| 17 | | Play Mafia scenes - that's a proper act in a wrongful manner (11) |
| 20 | | Pauline in most trouble with
distemper (8,5) |
| 22 | | Be fully prepared to offer support (5,2) |
| 24 | | Examples of active support in
accommodativeness, perhaps, but
moments lost (10) |
| 25 | | Terminating without a small
publication is harmful (10) |
| 27 | | Old monarchist using some
womens' wear in Tibet's borders (7) |
| 29 | | Dear Sir - Isn't it upsetting to be facing horrendous problems? (2,4,7) |
| 31 | | Limited approval given by team
colleague? That's rough (11) |
| 32 | | Fish and chips cooked with lard (9) |
| 35 | | It pushes up water rates in a new
development we shall cut short (8,4) |
| 37 | | English soldier turns up in hymn,
close to the soil (8) |
| 38 | | Where you get a welcome though
given a reprimand (2,3,3) |
| 39 | | Gold box assessed or scored (12) |
| 40 | | How this clue is framed, with
plain, clear terms (2,5,2,3,8) |
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Down
| 2 | | Rather unfair to get a small
discount (1,3,3) |
| 3 | | Liberal loyalist in upset town in
Wales (11) |
| 4 | | Illicit activity, not being part
of the Union (12,3) |
| 5 | | Get-together of management and
staff operates advice, it's said (5,7) |
| 6 | | "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and
wide arch Of the rang'd ****** fall" (Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra) (6) |
| 7 | | Ferocious animal invades Malta in
spring (9,5) |
| 8 | | Not being at home, Cliff can be
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more deceptive (8)
| 9 | | Rather like a doughnut, somewhat
rhetorically (5) |
| 10 | | Prepare too hard for open rule, by
the sound of it (9) |
| 11 | | Some of the opposition follow it
and can be converted (6,7) |
| 18 | | Gold to get O'Shanter back? Politics is corrupt weapon (15) |
| 19 | | Undue complaint or unruly
behaviour producing another story,
perhaps (7,3,4) |
| 21 | | Procedure made up indoors,
surprisingly (5,8) |
| 23 | | Quality of plaster! (12) |
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| 26 | | A foreign ruler, young man needing
a short month to go round Mexico
City (11) |
| 28 | | Small display reorganised in
Harrow, see (5,4) |
| 30 | | Mushrooms growing wild in 7 Down's location (8) |
| 33 | | Contract to give players their
cards (2,1,4) |
| 34 | | Reviewing absence of leg component
in small decorated bottle (6) |
| 36 | | Turkish port, middling in size,
overcomes border rising (5) |
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