Colgan's Cryptic Crossword
Across
1. Smug character, unwilling to accept unpleasantness, typically
seals crack (7)
5. Whacks with hose (5)
8. Taxes collected in both directions at centre of freeway site
(6,7)
9. Maintain shelter without new contribution (4)
10. Champion takes fair catch, bringing in last of batsmen (8)
12. Fruit in Murray town devoured by birds (11)
15. With a foul smell, carried on
doing nothing about cold (8)
16. Vegetable rejected by a Central American (4)
18. Spooning preserve beforehand is holding things up (13)
19. Bound to have checked out with criminal intent (5)
20. Princess, 6, has spirit (7)
Down
1. Dilemma – illumination source ruled out escape (6)
2. Designates carrying uniform
instructions on consignments (8,5)
3. Figure of bliss, with cloud disappearing (4)
4. Above all, little money must cover a small compartment housing
king (3,10)
5. They rescue one beset with smacks (8)
6. Union supplied something to
eat, in the form of drumsticks, to share (13)
7. Detective disrupts hustle (6)
11. Disease caught by being
starved, waiting to be executed (8)
13. Short coffee, perhaps, from the Middle-East (6)
14. Snarled line in head of
tuna-fish (6)
17. Take shelter from despicable person, abandoning MBA (4)
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Solutions published online on Friday November 27.