Cryptic Crossword (2005) Print E-mail
Written by Hazel Goldman   
When you have answered all the clues in this cryptic crossword, you will find the shaded squares share a common interest in our organisation.

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ACROSS

1 Want the East End to flourish (4)
3 Footholds in the financial world? (6)
7 Fellow could be put on (3)
10 Who would care if tea was brewed here? (9)
11 Allude to both ways (5)
12 Restore what Wren constructed around last fire (5)
13 Having taken the chair¸ the women inside were perspiring (2,1,5)
15 One gets a drink as retiring Japanese warrior (7)
17 Fire confined to part of the church (7)
18 Fool, say, has first class weapon (7)
21 The whole number, for example, in Bury (7)
23 In the main, it’s salty (3,5)
24 Who drops the ball first in the game? (5)
28 Muslim lawgiver in plain clothes? (5)
29 Was the poor hen full up? Not very co-operative (9)
30 Duck in vanilla sauce? (3)
31 Find fresh lodgings for lively Homer before start of epic (6)
32 Smooth club (4)

DOWN

1 The French town is on the river, to be more exact (5)
2 Spritely at fifty? In fine disarray (5)
4 Ends an academic period in Italian capital (7)
5 Tea, some butter and one piece of bread (7)
6 Writes hurriedly of how son is swimming (7)
7 Taking the breath away (9)
8 A lack of marines is the rule (4)
9 One who packs away the second high rise building (6)
14 A drop in rent (4)
15 Close the main line (4)
16 Mother, unusually restful, is still in charge (9)
19 More cack handed for witty person to go up to headless snow runner (7)
20 Communicating though out of play (2,5)
21 I support the man with Islamic name (7)
22 We got into lots of trouble with the driers (6)
25 Gather from what’s said that friend is endlessly drunk (5)
26 In fact, a long claw (5)
27 Sign me on outside (4)
 
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