The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin
The Competitive Edge Cryptic Crossword #1
with thanks to Justice Wigney

In CDPP v Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Limited (No 5 - Indictment) [2021] FCA 1345 Justice Wigney famously said:

Those responsible for drafting the cartel offence provisions in the C&C Act – none of whom could possibly have ever set foot in a criminal trial court before – appear to have approached the drafting task as if it were akin to producing a cryptic crossword. The offence provisions, when read with the extensive definitions of the terms used in them, are prolix, convoluted and labyrinthine. 

At The Competitive Edge with Gilbert + Tobin podcast we're sometimes prolix, convoluted and labyrinthine, so we're proud to present this cryptic crossword which includes some cartel offences and other competition law and regulation themes, plus some movie references and other words that were the only ones that fit. 

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  •  9 (& 8-down)                    Appraise repairing cartel conduct (5,6)

  • 10 A castle, or between two eyes? Even more so, legally (1,8)

  • 11 See 22-down

  • 12 Lion can maul Godfather treat (7)

  • 13 Degree of 15-across in Cooper or Eromanga (5)

  • 15 Half-single? Wrong! (3)

  • 16 Poor sap joined the ACCC (3)

  • 17 High-tech market study into units of density (3)

  • 19 Decapitated Ankara bloke loses British Library, singing questionably (7)

  • 20 (& 4-down)                   Behold! Too-wise director Lee contested power station (3,4)

  • 23 Crusaders at heart are melancholy (3)

  • 24 Explosive 9-across 8-down case (3)

  • 25 Litigious pay-TV hopeful gets even? Hardly! (5)

  • 27 See 13-down

  • 29 I count a possible target for 13-down 27-across (7)

  • 32 Former train without the last idea: thus materials can aid interpretation (9)

  • 33 One man acting for (and against?) another (5)

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  •  1  Australian Privacy Principles on your phone? (4)

  •  2  Old consumer part in Iranian coins' competitors (6)

  •  3  January edition: I can mind-trick (4)

  •  4  See 20-across

  •  5  Paying 100 instead of 1000, eliminating 2-down perhaps (7,3)

  •  6  Mixed nuts astound (4)

  •  7  Phone nuisance Rob O'Callaghan for a start (8)

  •  8  See 9-across

  • 13 (& 27-across)                      Unwise Brigid going without nothing for cartel conduct (3,7)

  • 14 9-across 8-down maybe in the altogether (5)

  • 15 Plan to rig estates badly (10)

  • 16 Iron rural case? (5)

  • 18 By the sound of it, provokes understandings (8)

  • 21 Yearning to pay the JFTC (3)

  • 22 (& 11-across)                      Gospel and French Saint Keith in cartel conduct (6,7)

  • 26 I've led astray a kind of threat (6)

  • 28 Aye, aye, aye and first aye for access part (4)

  • 29 1-300-AGENCY (4)

  • 30 Z-car crashed into competition, say (4)

  • 31 No free tuck shops at first for digital assets (4)

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