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Cryptic No 12
Phil Platt


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  •  8  Loudly fall ill and be unsuccessful (4)

  •  9  Process of stopping "rain" and marrying American? (10)

  • 10 Go round in nearby passage (6)

  • 11 Ordinary form of crime ode (8)

  • 12 One was involved in 9 across (8)

  • 14 It's fishy when one is embraced, for example, by 2000 (6)

  • 16 Old Spot's home could be cause of eye problem (4)

  • 17 Sounds like old Mexican has technology! (5)

  • 18 Earth inheritor, apparently (4)

  • 19 Weep before I leave pits housing the dead (6)

  • 21 Motoring organisation has right to confront composer with nothing less - crawler consumer! (8)

  • 23 Doughnut that JFK claimed to be (8)

  • 26 Run fast, like Linsey Dawn McKenzie at Old Trafford (6)

  • 27 Draught animal from south is her hero, oddly (5,5)

  • 28 We back credit for ship workers (4)

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  •  1  Picture of childminder may be by artist (10)

  •  2  Heart of old Scotland is fishy! (8)

  •  3  Policeman comes round behind - very far round! (6)

  •  4  Made mixed cheese (4)

  •  5  It's not really significant that a rotter dissected mice on campus (8)

  •  6  Powerful limb removed from original moonwalker (6)

  •  7  To fly high sounds painful (4)

  • 13 Divorced partner may partly transform into a bit on the side (5)

  • 15 Perfect ship for getting things going (10)

  • 17 Sailors at home with the spirit (8)

  • 18 It's unorthodox to find agreement embraced by Irishman (8)

  • 20 Sounds like a very small amount of chickens (6)

  • 22 Bolder than Francis Bacon? (6)

  • 24 Lover of Narcissus...cissuss....cissuss (4)

  • 25 Two regiments seldom seen (4)

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