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Cryptic No 11
Phil Platt


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  •  1  Resisting poor actor badly before getting in a place fit for a Queen (10,6)

  •  9  Start to drop farts with bad smell - (6)

  • 11 Get down to discussions about Istambul? (4,6)

  • 12 Sounds like a ghastly Hungarian dish (8)

  • 13 Code for keeping schtum in the Mob (6)

  • 14 How you might be described in Military alphabet, all the same (7)

  • 15 US lawyer has little stomach for single piece of information (5)

  • 16 Symbol seen during the day in Chinese philosophy (3)

  • 18 Unbelievers present during robberies? (8)

  • 21 Is it there to prevent Welshman falling overboard? (8)

  • 22 Quietly, we move back to a seat in church (3)

  • 23 The French face each missing article, revealing a sucker in flowers (5)

  • 24 Thoroughfare on board - Mob Street? (7)

  • 27 Various crawlers in sloppy script (6)

  • 28 Geological activity - ability to be in charge after part of pastry? (8)

  • 29 Don't know much about one in Paris meeting some kinfolk, and one who is untruthful (10)

  • 30 Rules about a confused sign (6)

  • 31 In which we hear East would probably find a part in the Old West (9,7)

  • Down
  •  2  Saw measure then loudly fills tank - causing commotions (10)

  •  3  Retsina gone off and more unpleasant (7)

  •  4  Knotty problem (5)

  •  5  It's dangerous to denigrate the worker (9)

  •  6  Artificial surface sorted out for a trust (9)

  •  7  Committee leaders leave church and go flying (6)

  •  8  Process of enabling current power (15)

  • 10 Out of sight of the audience (6-3-6)

  • 17 Realist revealed when idiot embraces foolish stigma (10)

  • 19 What girl'll do if given a rod and line? (9)

  • 20 Left winger keeps tally after celebration (9)

  • 25 Out and about in a big way, it seems (2,5)

  • 26 Mystic group the French leave following a taxi (6)

  • 28 Drive off composer (5)

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