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Across 1 River rose, creating artificial lake (9) 6 Locate fish, we hear (5) 9 Begin to jump up with surprise (5) 10 Consequences following sums (9) 11 Below twisted part of gut (5) 12 Urged and ran into splendour (8) 16 Foreign land I cite just the same (9) 17 Quiet monkey round first writing material (5) 20 Informer who could be a plant? (5) 22 Leaves the hotel and establishes the truth (6,3) 24 Entreat a worried beast (8) 26 It’s flat whichever way you look at it (5) 29 Agreed on a fizzy drink (9) 31 Unadorned and level tract of land (5) 32 Get in blended colour (5) 33 She dreads this form of ornamentation (9)
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Down 1 Remainder to relax (4) 2 Propose AA broadcast seen on TV (4,5) 3 Shortly regarding deal with a withdrawal (7) 4 Two letters that sound alright (4) 5 Endlessly ripped up to decompose (3) 6 Average cut for vegetable (7) 7 One way in stone (5) 8 Anaesthetic the queen takes in (5) 13 Big wave that can make the hair curl (6) 14 Fish found in the marlin genus (4) 15 Frozen spike, ninety-nine twice before the French (6) 18 Walk about open-armed (9) 19 Tear apart for speed (4) 21 Snap leg badly to glitter (7) 23 Keep and manipulate protector (7) 24 Twelve inches underway (5) 25 Teach a locomotive (5) 27 Wager with a Greek character (4) 28 Burden carried by non-user (4) 30 Has gone out after fire (3)
Solution Across: 1 Reservoir, 6 Place, 9 Start, 10 Aftermath, 11 Bowel, 12 Grandeur, 16 Identical, 17 Paper, 20 Grass, 22 Checks out, 24 Anteater, 26 Level, 29 Orangeade, 31 Plain, 32 Tinge, 33 Headdress. Down: 1 Rest, 2 Soap opera, 3 Retreat, 4 Okay, 5 Rot, 6 Parsnip, 7 Agate, 8 Ether, 13 Roller, 14 Ling, 15 Icicle, 18 Promenade, 19 Rate, 21 Spangle, 23 Kneepad, 24 Afoot, 25 Train, 27 Beta, 28 Onus, 30 Ash.
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