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Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 STUMPS End of play must upset patrons extremely (6) Anagram of MUST + P)atron(S 5 KERMIS Annual fair irks me terribly (6) Anagram of IRKS ME 9 CLUBS Young animals gathered around large woods, … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 TAP-DANCES Entertains by striking a piano in unusual descant (3-6) (A + P) inside anagram of DESCANT 6 TOP-UP Something that’s added to small seal (3-2) TO + PUP 9 ROBOT Factory worker, perhaps, … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 TREASURE Adjusted rate with fixed value (8) Anagram of RATE + SURE 5 FINDER Friend ordered an instrument used to locate a target (6) Anagram of FRIEND 9 & 21dn READING MATTER Tried a … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 PIGGISH Goody-goody with no right is mean (7) PRIGGISH minus R 5 UNMEANT United Nations convened about a final part to resolution that’s not intended (7) UN + MET outside (A +N) 9 RAIDS … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 FILED Worked with a tool arranged in a particular way (5) Double Definition 4 HOMELESS Moles she relocated could be unsettled (8) Anagram of MOLES SHE 8 FLATHEAD Fine lad holding the head of … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 MISSHAPEN Ugly young lady has not finished with writer (9) MISS + HA(s) + PEN 6 ISAAC Patriarch is a focus of tracts (5) IS + A + tr(AC)ts 9 TRAMS People movers, electronically … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 CLUMPS Groups first to cultivate wild plums (6) C + anagram of PLUMS 4 GO-CART Old walker got stuck with car (2-4) GOT outside CAR 8 ILL-TREAT Don’t look after a tiller realigned by … Continue reading →

Across Answers and Clues Explanations 1 AMBITION Worked in a tomb harbouring one objective (8) Anagram of IN A TOMB outside I 5 AGENCY Get old head of communications put into New York bureau (6) AGE + (C inside NY) … Continue reading →