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Cryptic No 23
Phil Platt


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  •  1  Mobile home occupant? (5)

  •  4  Deform oar to build an opening surround (9)

  •  9  Table endlessly broken by worker, that's obvious (7)

  • 10 Whose child is fair of face? (7)

  • 11 Ruddy sort of cad! (5)

  • 13 Task arranged to discover pigment (5)

  • 15 Part of 10 across leaves Belgian town (3)

  • 16 Snooker player's invitation to appear (3)

  • 17 It's perfect for me to dole out the cards (5)

  • 19 Make sense of bill presented to NI politicians (3,2)

  • 21 Old Lag fag? (5)

  • 23 It's imperative that girl embraces it (5)

  • 24 Charge that makes you feel left out (3)

  • 25 Softly leave fool (3)

  • 26 Has terrible accident involving speed (5)

  • 28 Well-endowed bovine backs into US tramp (5)

  • 29 Tar must break down to form rock layer (7)

  • 31 Mutilated snake and duck combined in Eastern storm (7)

  • 33 Legendary musician had a youthful following (4,5)

  • 34 Character found in the Talmud (5)

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  •  1  Reverses 19 across (9)

  •  2  Measure, usually (2,1,4)

  •  3  Meadow found in arable area (3)

  •  4  Somehow dot it again (5)

  •  5  Part of the Home Guard arranged resistance measure (3)

  •  6  Surround dodgy buyer (5)

  •  7  Knew about theological degree handed out (7)

  •  8  Try composition? (5)

  • 12 Included in Benedictine Order (5)

  • 14 It's in the lot of a Spartan slave (5)

  • 18 Folklore creatures are right out of baby eels (5)

  • 19 Notice Liberal make it up as he went along (2-3)

  • 20 Opium Anne mixed for bronchial disorder (9)

  • 22 Point out school-leaver start tennis match? (7)

  • 24 Soldier's shelter in Reynard's earth (7)

  • 25 Pose a fabled fellow? (5)

  • 26 Agitated man gets put out (3,2)

  • 27 Chemical discovered in Leicestershire? (5)

  • 30 Graduate beginning to peruse chart (3)

  • 32 Tap out gently (3)

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