crossword by Dalibor
York, 27 Oct 2018

 

Eleven solutions, all proper nouns, have a thing or two in common.

Their definitions may be vague, clumsy, insufficient, perhaps even unfair.


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  •  9  Prostitute with nothing on flashes in Cheers (7)

  • 10 Surprisingly, I flash too, ultimately having not much to do (7)

  • 11 Soldiers sleeping around have children with those very close (7)

  • 12 It's disgusting to split eggs, Ramsay's beginning to become more agitated (7)

  • 13 Ancestors at sea lost half a fish there! (3,6)

  • 15 Small majority of Leave in Britain, time to complain (5)

  • 16 Alexis Sanchez shows endless quality - quick thinker, awesome at central positions (7)

  • 19 Nothing very new about soprano, Birgit from Sweden? (7)

  • 20 Classical music? (5)

  • 21 Apparently shaving went a bit wrong in pursuit of original hairstyle (6,3)

  • 25 The three leading members of Arcadia inspired by, oddly, Blondie's Parallel Lines (7)

  • 26 Filmmaker expressed what's essential to Black October (7)

  • 28 Victoria Coren's not right to keep mum about Mitchell's backside (7)

  • 29 Say it's wrong to be enthralled by mega-selfies? (7)

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  •  1  Former tennis player always lost, many still believe in him (6)

  •  2  Lord Mandelson, finally describes initiation of Brexit: "unknown future for Labour?" (6)

  •  3  John Milton's pen (4)

  •  4  Familiar with American tax officer nailing journalist (4,2)

  •  5  Jeremy's escapades will impress Tory (8)

  •  6  CIA sadly about to arrest inventor for having WMD? (5,5)

  •  7  Expensive time of year but not on to make waves (4,4)

  •  8  Defending World Cup winner to rabbit on about both sides (8)

  • 14 Range of vehicle types, including one without gas (10)

  • 16 Crashing a bicycle, then keeping away from it (8)

  • 17 All current terms changed, millions deported as unwanted characters (8)

  • 18 Drink and thereafter go as being told (8)

  • 22 One of the common people has private storage space initially doubled (6)

  • 23 Hotel manager accomodates 150 with ease, they say (6)

  • 24 Trump almost protects terrorists? That's a cliche (6)

  • 27 Dangerous gas no problem for adventurous Yorkshire lad (4)

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