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CHRIS'S CRYPTICS

CROSSWORDS

PUZZLES

FUN

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007's CRYPTIC

ACROSS
1. Start with a fish limb then put a female sheep at her if the elements are favourable. (4, 7)
9. He will love this greeting! (5)
10. A really top wave may appear to widen. (5)
11. Municipal yard opted for change. (5)
12. Reginald took identification when he went out to the hilly outcrop. (5)

DOWN
2. They took it easy after I had led them there. (5)
3. Slowly destroy what's submerged in zero degrees. (5)
4. Even with the purest, corruption explodes. (6)
5. Tries out the Maori ways. (5)
6. Use quite a lot of energy to get the tree up around ten o'clock on the sundial. (5)

14. Let us leave tissues out at various places. (5)
16. Invite one to use some of the caskets. (3)
18. Frantically reload for the next trial. (6)
19. If you lunge recklessly near the end of the cliff the water will overwhelm you. (6)
20. First propose a question about remuneration. (3)
22. Seventy centres hosted the programme. (5) 25. OK, take a hundred, for example, back to the reptile. (5)
27. I surmise that the fireman lost his ma and became upset. (5)
28. To be precise, make them pay! (5)
29. A state dependant wins commendation. (5)
30. Study of the elements of alternative loo geometry. (11)

7. Unusual term theorem used to define degrees of kinetic energy. (11)
8. Make upset lass hold off large downpours. (5, 6)
13. Where you can't use the driver, looking envious, perhaps. (5)
15. Get a leg in somehow near the fireplace. (5)
16. A lofty political group? (3)
17. Opens the door in so many flats, perhaps. (3)
21. You may use tangled raffia for this business. (6)
23. Make nothing of what a seer prattled about. (5)
24. If you know what's on the front cover, it's proof you own the land! (5)
25. A girl went out to find the object of many a quest. (5)
26. Clan gets reunited, making a bit of a din. (5)

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