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CHRIS'S CRYPTICS

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APRIL 2007's CRYPTIC

ACROSS
1. Apt to have a convulsion. (3)
3. Dusts one's face with headache treatments! (7)
7. Lubricate timeless work. (3)
8. A rare skill comes from deep in the heart. (3)
9. It's very valuable to cast the right vote, somehow. (5)
12. A patchy vocalization regarding a ruddy-skinned race. (6)

DOWN
1. (26 & 27 down). Cooking vessel holds a bright light for something of transient interest. (5, 2, 3, 3)
2. When you make a permanent wreck of the car, that's what it amounts to! (5)
3. Request pale tint. (4)
4. Including the few it hides. (4)
5. For example, nothing makes him so confident. (3)

15. Haul out the traditional dance. (4)
16. Four and twenty cans made of concrete, perhaps. (4)
18. Shuffle through with a dangerous arm. (5)
19. National leader took a big boat to find the constabulary's stool pigeon. (4)
21. Powder source that's left in when cat returns. (4)
23. Put a value on donkey's stubborn head. (6)
26. Frenetic typist has no time to be drunk. (5)
28. The evil I will contract. (3)
29. Unusual and without equal. (3)
30. Heed the garbled cue. Shun those impotent servants. (7)
31. For example, gravity may encourage such fowl production. (3)

6. Is she the girl to take a-courting? (3)
10. Steers around and puts everything back to square one. (6)
11. Go by way of a few trivial characters. (3)
13. Sounds like those who stop their cars hoods with coats. (6)
14. Somehow faces small business enterprises. (5)
17. Support and cut down trees. It's the work that's piling up to be done! (7)
20. My European friend has a poor aim. (3)
22. Strange ideas coveyed in a whisper? (5)
24. I hear we submerge in perfect timing. (4)
25. The legendary love source has a sore back. (4)
26. See 1 down. (3)
27. See 1 down. (3)

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