Crossword #42
22 September 2022
Skirwingle

You thought puzzle No.42 was bound to be Hitch-Hikers themed? Ha, think again my friends, because it isn’t.


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  •  7  Starving? That’s only common sense after a dance party (8)

  •  9  Your organ out in front? That’s crude (6)

  • 10 Great friend of Milton, very big around university (10)

  • 11 What may be behind house? Yes, a road (4)

  • 12 A bit of fruit for each fish I caught (8)

  • 13 Catty remarks? (6)

  • 15 Breathy sound? I say! (5)

  • 16 Someone forging initialism of incredulity about computer systems (5)

  • 20 Deserter is following good for nothing (6)

  • 22 Stop transfer (4,4)

  • 23 Sailor’s after top from Suzanne Vega, perhaps (4)

  • 25 Sci-fi-looking robot’s first to leave rotten citrus fruit (10)

  • 26 Note Austen nerd keeps hold of (6)

  • 27 Just don’t panic: kit can be fixed (4,2,2)

  • Down
  •  1  I’m abandoning godawful primaeval faff (7)

  •  2  I’d rather you didn’t do this with the bin on collection day (5,2,3)

  •  3  Arrange meals out for lover and confidant (4,4)

  •  4  It’s chucked off boats or planes before lunchtime (6)

  •  5  Try a different description of aesthetes (4)

  •  6/18  The weather ne’er changes – it is what it is! (5,2,3,4)

  •  8  Angry tramp’s starting to shout at parliamentarian (5)

  • 14 Identity of who wrote Uriah H’s top letters (10)

  • 17 Nonconformist Irishman’s assumed state (8)

  • 18 See 6

  • 19 Go back to clergyman ... could that be? (7)

  • 21 Expedition to hunt rat abandoning Haile Selassie (6)

  • 22 Don’t lie around in bed all day! What are you wearing? (3,2)

  • 24 Angry passage in Koran translation (4)

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