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Cryptic No 17
Phil Platt


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  •  1  A toast to Dame Nellie? (5)

  •  4  Where new members usually sit (9)

  •  9  It's instrumental for you to be found between Britain and two of the French (7)

  • 10 Coddler may steal the game! (7)

  • 11 May be about a country churchyard in Cambridgeshire town, for example (5)

  • 13 Henry initially dons a small amount of religious attire (5)

  • 15 A quiet French one? That's a joke! (3)

  • 16 It's mostly the truth to be stuck in one (3)

  • 17 Stone marker for terrier? (5)

  • 19 Antidote may be derived from Japanese ruminant (5)

  • 21 One is found in conspiracy to guide the ship (5)

  • 23 Front taken off water heater to create a lubricant vessel (5)

  • 24 Broadcast when on it (3)

  • 25 Is leaving to start drink (3)

  • 26 See detective's company in dance club (5)

  • 28 Quietly unpunctual silverware (5)

  • 29 It maddens one to see red as green somehow (7)

  • 31 Hit the brakes afloat (7)

  • 33 German apt to become magical symbol (9)

  • 34 Unscrambling a timeless secret may become a slippery slope (5)

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  •  1  Must opera turn into long running play? (9)

  •  2  Rearrangement lets duo become most fortissimo (7)

  •  3  Expert card? (3)

  •  4  Worker goes to church found in the woods (5)

  •  5  Fungus found in nice places (3)

  •  6  Animal left out of ruined stable (5)

  •  7  Shaken poor hen is one who despairs (2-5)

  •  8  Fishkeeper would be alarmed to find her on the side of the pond (5)

  • 12 Boat Cathy redesigned? (5)

  • 14 To be obsessive is trivial (5)

  • 18 Small pictures one conservative begins to paint (5)

  • 19 Dispose of southern rubbish (5)

  • 20 Oxford detective's encryption? (5,4)

  • 22 Marathon revealed in the fullness of time (4,3)

  • 24 A mature somehow doesn't do it for a living (7)

  • 25 Hasten a bargee up North? (3,2)

  • 26 Firm belief in Mother taking back Supreme Being (5)

  • 27 Ancient characters around Omagh? (5)

  • 30 Pupil may have to please him to make a request (3)

  • 32 One of the animals adopted by St. Francis of Assisi? (3)

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