Crossword #63
30 June 2024
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  •  1  In which men grapple with problem approaching zero (4)

  •  3  Fancy boot dropped in football season (4)

  •  6  They hear fellow up front is afraid (5)

  • 10 Account operator who points the finger (7)

  • 11 Bad person follows good canoe (7)

  • 12 Joely Richardson’s sort of ode (5)

  • 13 Efforts to reconstruct extra-terrestrial car-park’s location (3-6)

  • 15 The Lady’s editorial leader embraced by personnel (3)

  • 16 Louis Armstrong released a tango – what a fool! (5)

  • 17 Nowt’s changed after feature with adult film (9)

  • 19 Probably wet sand here? Definitely, some say (9)

  • 20 Drink last of applejack, common coming back from the east (5)

  • 21 Assume fellow is a Mafia boss (3)

  • 22 Brownie, say, came between hedge and painter (3,6)

  • 25 Leading characters in Iranian mosques – and, maybe, singers (5)

  • 27 Info taken from list of fixes in book where bulls are stuck (7)

  • 29 Some telegraph a giant consumer difficulty (7)

  • 30 Old European boy clutching a cross (5)

  • 31 Connection going on and off? Lose Bing (4)

  • 32 Staunch police force’s rejected practical subjects (4)

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  •  1  Humble opening of shopping precinct (5)

  •  2  General tool used by Douglas Adams, and character he created (9)

  •  4  1974–77 Ford vehicle or 1997 Ford vehicle (3,5,3)

  •  5  Lance or prune bits off the top (3)

  •  6  Bunch of fives, including right letters needed for solving five (5)

  •  7  Woman heard in the latter part of Jumanji (5)

  •  8  Sterne novel contains little Scottish enticement (9)

  •  9  Crazy person takes axe to unknown cycles (6)

  • 14 Complaint of thwarted villain if oil agenda is confounded (6,5)

  • 16 Books that aren’t hard to get into (9)

  • 18 It’s inaccurate having bits of goose egg in bad pastry (3,6)

  • 20 Think about capturing good horseman (6)

  • 23 Copy games console, swapping British component with hesitation (5)

  • 24 A property right from elsewhere (5)

  • 26 Throng’s Cornish branch? (5)

  • 28 What a shame Labour leader’s a boring tool (3)

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