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   Azed Crossword No. 1757 Solution

  Special instructions: The Chambers Dictionary (2003) is recommended.

1 across should read: What may create less fun, in new habit, giving up a bit? (9)
12 across should read: Trio with very limited vision agree to differ about alto (6)
32 across should read: Scotsman's scare seen as ridiculous in an English paper (6)

     
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Across
1 What may create less fun, in new habit, giving up a bit? (9)
11 Slippery place in head right for old schemer (9)
12 Trio with very limited vision agree to differ about alto (6)
13 Orderly schoolkids enthralled by microcomputers (4)
14 'Setiferous' was obscure spelling one's taken in (6)
15 Free of ropes jaunty hauls round end of capstan (6)
17 Small hole, old, frayed even - touch inside (7)
18 Pipe length feeds small island (4)
20 Sprinkled caster undergoes chemical change (6)
22 Lizard? See me going for one in seed pod (6)
23 'Och' uttered encapsulates this alternative thereof (4)
24 Fail to give adequate time to one turning odder (7)
27 Path to salvation, Indian's start of karma in place of sun god (6)
29 Member of Hindu pantheon: see reverse of a coin (eastern), silver (6)
31 Book set with antique - like this perhaps? (4)
32 Scotsman's scare seen as ridiculous in an English paper (6)
33 Duck circling area of dunes left for marsh (9)
34 One looks after workers, swilling beer with mates (9)
 
Down
1 Blighter with bunch endlessly cavorting? (12)
2 United dribble, Keane's header missing - not much of a bag (7)
3 Hawk-to-be traditionally involved in many a scrap (4)
4 Degrees showing temperature inside skink (5)
5 Rush basket, not at all strong (5)
6 In shirtsleeves, getting prompt runs in open batting? (8,2 words)
7 One with his own company finding hotel in search north of the border (7)
8 Lay out Scotch in clubhouse, given rare close round (8)
9 More than one gully to soak up catches ending in debacle (4)
10 Treasury rule circulated by Speaker? One makes arrangements (12)
16 Players including one strangely glad for sorry pro (8)
17 See object that is incorporating barrel for sale (8)
19 Charge includes label indicating transport cost (7)
21 Stomachs with urge for part of 'neeps and tatties' recipe (7)
25 Notice paper boosted force in Ireland (5)
26 Whale Nova Scotia rears in Canadian channels (5)
28 The old linger in south coast resort (4)
30 Genuine German playwright (not British) (4)
     


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