Crossword #53
31 August 2023
Skirwingle


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  •  1/28  Going by a sale item, what the lovelorn want is severely inadequate (7,1,3,2,2,7)

  •  7/27  Someone attractive that’ll keep you cosy in bed (6)

  •  9  Arrangement with parts transposed or overturned (5)

  • 10 Maybe switch to metric distances in junk dealer’s premises (9)

  • 11 What’s found at the side of ship? Sally, reportedly (7)

  • 12 Element of Korea’s leadership, said to be muscly and working (7)

  • 13 Sandy location for garden plots (4)

  • 14 Descent from rickety pier edge (8)

  • 18 She partly wrote article in sophisticated northwest state (2-6)

  • 19/26 They report fresh mid-sea turmoil (4,5)

  • 22 Be too hot – hot for Wednesday – stand here for shade (7)

  • 24 Reasoned monk is engrossed in machine learning (1,6)

  • 25 Gave authority to Reagan, in the end, perhaps (9)

  • 26 See 19

  • 27 See 7

  • 28 See 1

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  •  1/21  To find social seducer alluring, doze off (6,6)

  •  2/7  Task’d wherefore the romances began, devised this proverbial response (7,5,3,5,4,6)

  •  3  One new van’s en route (2,7)

  •  4  Truth’s not even found in gross appeals (6)

  •  5  Parrot rote-like nonsense (8)

  •  6  Merry Korean star supports up-and-coming Italian (5)

  •  7  See 2

  •  8  Vegan at first tucked into prepared tinned recipe for convenience food (2,6)

  • 15 I know nothing of a Greek character embraced by cycling Italian gent (9)

  • 16 It’s broad, flat and cold and it contains grated cheese (3,5)

  • 17 Opener to hit cross skyward (8)

  • 20 Frank performed after Jerry, possibly? (6)

  • 21 See 1

  • 23 Sailor starts to oil the deck (5)

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