Crossword #65
12 August 2024
Skirwingle


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  •  7  Boor shown in painting rejected threesome (6)

  •  8  Wells will be productive here in later years, penning one life furiously (8)

  •  9  One in PE shorts getting changed to ditch ordinary trousers (8)

  • 10 Condition found in outskirts of endemic zone – malaria? (6)

  • 11 Perhaps sang-froid vis-à-vis bitterness I see reported in halved text message (10)

  • 13 Foreign dignitary brought back The Ancient Mariner, say (4)

  • 14 Annoyed shout after a pet upset small table (6)

  • 16 Person who’s active about origins of water, supposedly (6)

  • 19 Goddess of Ellis Island (4)

  • 21 King to take special talent for trifle (5-5)

  • 23 Character from Greece hearing no large rodent (6)

  • 24 What good kippers lack (8)

  • 26 It’s said you will ebb and flow around year’s end (8)

  • 27 Keenness of a copper and soldiers (6)

  • Down
  •  1  What annoys Titian awfully about rivers (8)

  •  2  Decoration can smell oddly (6)

  •  3  Go in water ankle-deep at first, up to waistline finally? (4)

  •  4  Novel Paul Clifford’s leading characters, and also Kent staff (10)

  •  5  They provide cut in conversation around start of long, hot days (8)

  •  6  Old boys network leader backs hesitation when embraced by the greatest (6)

  •  8  6 openings for Englishmen, subsequently starting to fixate (6)

  • 12 Musically alarming eye-opener? (5,5)

  • 15 Sponge, perhaps, found in hijabs or berets (8)

  • 17 Got device fixed after rogue cleared out (8)

  • 18 What 16 does in video nasty, nothing censored (6)

  • 20 Set maths problem about dribble (6)

  • 22 Cloud? Before start of bulletin, I’m taken in by rising sun (6)

  • 25 Where to sit in Spanish car (4)

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