Crossword #55
07 October 2023
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  •  1  Storyteller cored apple very quietly (5)

  •  4  Column holds up catapult of a schoolboy (9)

  •  9  He always wants to have king George install bishop in Welsh town (7)

  • 10 Fighting females from Samoa and NZ, perhaps? (7)

  • 11 It’s found in wrought iron, following partner to bolt food (9)

  • 13 Boy’s new independent cricket side returned (5)

  • 15 He wrote about toys and a boy left in a pit (5)

  • 16 Sound coming from stable popular government after question about pub (9)

  • 18 Queer lad worried about head of class given new coat (9)

  • 19 Head of school is not a good person (5)

  • 20 Dip in arousal’s alarming (5)

  • 22 Plant found in part of school with water seepage, I hear (5-4)

  • 25 Order is just set out around middle of September (7)

  • 27 What’s part of dessert? Thanks – processed curds sandwiches (7)

  • 28 In digestive system, find Polo-shaped new foodstuff (9)

  • 29 Dapper, like King Cole? (5)

  • Down
  •  1  A boy at Hogwarts inhales last of laughing gas (5)

  •  2  Wise guy’s well-presented Guinness, say (5,4)

  •  3  1927’s a fictional setting for this (6,9)

  •  4  Sort of Persian, not English or Norse (5)

  •  5  Old man confiscates eastern ammo from schoolboy’s shooter (3)

  •  6  What a person’s expected to do in class: not repeat mistakes (5,4,6)

  •  7  In the middle of New Guinea, supporting first principle of Latin lesson (5)

  •  8  Where to see pupils heading off, agreed? (3)

  • 12 Father and Scots boy held up nymph (5)

  • 14 Allowed to run away (5)

  • 15 Way of working with the French agents (5)

  • 16 Leaders in war office, reckoned to have merit (5)

  • 17 Travelling on nite train? (9)

  • 21 Group of schoolkids not starting to climb over rope (5)

  • 23 Meeting of shotgun and cutlass allowed by censor (5)

  • 24 Rag on extremely dirty child (5)

  • 25 Prison governors undermine judiciary at first, when upset (3)

  • 26 Singular working boy (3)

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