Crossword #70
25 January 2025
Skirwingle

Thanks to The Void for pointing out two clue errors (now edited)

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  •  8  Get nothing for heavy drinker (4)

  •  9  Revelation: cop lay sprawled in part of church (10)

  • 10 Downside of Ms Campbell having awkward gait (8)

  • 11 Knackered janitor: ‘I quit!’ – He works hard (6)

  • 12 Mountain hollyhock swung both ways (6)

  • 14 Assam, say with last of sugar in; certainly it‘s stored in a chest (8)

  • 15 Poorer-quality joint not beginning to engender devotion (7)

  • 17 Start to step, then fall (7)

  • 20 Hi! I tweet about evening dress (5,3)

  • 22 Throw mobile operator a cable (6)

  • 23 See about bringing back South American city party (6)

  • 24 Maybe Googles ‘cycling game’ to hold attention (8)

  • 26 A terrier women used to own charged with anger – twice! (4-6)

  • 27 Cutesy things for pulling hairs half out (4)

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  •  1/21  He enters in new way to get location of twee answer (4,6)

  •  2  Awfully sad? No way, at the moment (8)

  •  3  Hiding in shadow, a pitiful deer (6)

  •  4  What’s new in central Hanover, let loose by youth leader (7)

  •  5  Supremely horrible United States organisation, banishing new duet (8)

  •  6  Poles store only shredded hose (6)

  •  7  Ropey footwear? (10)

  • 13 Deification of pharmacist dismissing Mr Grant and old sibling (10)

  • 16 Naked model: I want her! (2,3,3)

  • 18 Douglas’ pets? (4,4)

  • 19 Novel coarsens, without least bit of attention from these editors (7)

  • 21 See 1

  • 22 Poets taking drug: Garibaldi and Van Dyke? (6)

  • 25 It could easily cut a bit of orange peel (4)

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