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Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 STAPLE Principal is to join paper (6) Double definition 4 REVERSAL Odd bits of rust appearing in display switch (8) (R)u(S)t inside REVEAL 10 BUILDING SOCIETY Barrister’s first guilty decision ruined prominent lender (8,7) … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 CLERIC Divine relic excited head of church (6) Anagram of RELIC + (C)hurch 5 HABITAT Natural environment is rather active in Panama possibly (7) (A BIT) inside HAT 9 FORTUNE-TELLERS Timber gatherers collecting erratically … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 INCISE Cut segments from CSI, NCIS etc (6) csI NCIS Etc 4 ACADEMIC A person studying a rat and mutated mice (8) A + CAD + anagram of MICE 9 SAMOA Small NZ bird … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 LOG CABIN Register when taxi returns home (3,5) LOG CAB IN 5 UTTERS Speaks total sense at the start (6) UTTER + (S)ense 10 TRAPEZE Swing part pulled back with ease by the sound … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 CORRESPOND Run in hearts added to pool tally (10) R inside CORES + POND 6 CHIT Leading member of choir reached note (4) (C)hoir + HIT 10 RADICAL Basic form of carbon used in … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 POPEDOM Catholic leader’s office procedure Father knocked back (7) (MODE + POP) reversed 5 DEBATES Top performer turned around club’s formal discussions (7) SEED reversed outside BAT 9 ISLAM Religion is liturgy, primarily, and … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 ROCK-BOTTOM Low music, time and time again used in big sound (4-6) ROCK + (TT inside BOOM) 6 FANG Drive fast propeller connected to back of rig (4) FAN + ri(G) 9 SHAWL Wash … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 DISADVANTAGES Wrongly advised against giving up one’s weak points (13) Anagram of ADVISED AGAINST minus I 9 STARTED Prominent detective turned set off (7) STAR + (DET reversed) 10 ALL-TIME Outstanding lieutenant revealed in … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 FORECAST Prophecy supporting a sect experiencing conversion (8) FOR + anagram of A SECT 5 GROTTO Source of glow-worms possibly reached crossing river (6) GOT TO outside R 10 SECOND-IN-COMMAND Deputy condemns nomadic wandering … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 HIPPODROME Fashionable school located next to Rome’s music hall (10) HIP + POD + ROME 6 LEWD Substance retrieved from contaminated well is blue (4) contaminateD WELl reversed 10 THEFT Stealing from the vacated … Continue reading →