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LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS

ACROSS: 4) Wise guy, 8) Adroit, 9) Message, 10) Employ, 11) Raring, 12) Full-face, 18) Jumped-up, 20) Angina, 21) Stolen, 22) Stutter, 23) Bow tie, 24) Charity.

DOWN: 1) Take-off, 2) Grapple, 3) Rip-off, 5) Ice cream, 6) Ensure, 7) Urgent, 13) Adjacent, 14) Adulate, 15) Spanner, 16) Snatch, 17) Filter, 19) Patrol.

CLUES ACROSS

7 Cleaner with nothing for dirt collection (6) 8 Change ice off the block into a place for a desk (6) 9 By some convoluted method is a tan changed to a social creature (3) 10 When you are well disposed for action, all systems are go (5) 11 Good layer of endearing use to eat (3) 14 Rather brash and gaudy, not in the best of taste (5) 15 This chicken really has a sauce (7) 17 Flower of complex form, fruit of possible desire (7) 19 Song of David? Possibly, who knows? (5) 22 First class fighter pilot (3) 23 Rather delicate, elegant woman (5) 24 Stretch of a measured distance - for a race perhaps? (3) 27 Occupier of an Eastern teahouse (6) 28 Accompanied with, a design for singing (6)

CLUES DOWN

1 Small boat with engine power (6) 2 Specified amount of money, result of adding numbers (3) 3 Yellow sign for caution (5) 4 One of a group that operates beyond the Law (7) 5 Go away, leave, depart (3) 6 Demonstrate fear by forcing out a high-pitched note (6) 12 She should give an answer to the half-crazed tandem owner (5) 13 Pass over an old gallows tree (5) 16 Feline impressionist perhaps? (7) 18 One of an old broadcasting family of silent shooters? (6) 20 Off-course sideways movement of a ship in the direction of the wind (6) 21 Where one might conceivably find form of 7A (5) 25 Humble creature of biblical fame (3) 26 Once said to be a fair one when crook was apprehended (3)

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