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Financial Times 12493 by DANTE

Posted by murf on July 6th, 2007

murf.
Across
1. CHEESE - Cryptic def.
4. REASON - (Sane or)*
8. A,C,COUNT(=tell)
9. PFENNIG - 100 pfennigs to an old German mark
11. ASPIRATION - (a pianist or)*
12. LEES - “leas” (What you might get if you’re scraping the barrel.)
13. ENNUI - (Nun i.e.)*
14. HOWITZER - (with zero)*
16. KHARTOUM - author* in km (short measure)
18. IDEAS - cryptic def.
20. OM,AN - OM=Order of Merit
21. SCREEN TEST
23. ARM(OUR)Y
24. CAR(NAG)E
25. LARIAT ?? Oh yeeha! Now I get it.
26. THWART - double def.
 
Down
1. COCKS “cox”
2. EROSION - (Noise or)*
3. SAN MARINO - (Romanians)*
5. ELFIN - f in (Nile)^
6. SINGLE,T(eacher)
7. NOISELESS (Lionesses*)
10. NIGHT,MARE
13. EPHEMERAL - double def. Good surface between wings and span.
15. WHITEWASH - double def.
17. RANCOUR - “ranker” i.e. sounds like a private (as Wossy might say)
19. ESTONIA (at noise)*
21. SYRIA - S(chool), AIRY^
22. SIGHT

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