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   Azed Crossword No. 1777 Solution

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23 across should read: Dried fish from former times, then caught in race mostly (8)

27 down should read: Cutey showing hint of poitrine amid corsage? (5)

The Chambers Dictionary (2003) is recommended.

     
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Across
3 Computer program recreated tomtoms, basso profundo? (10)
11 German philosopher's one among greens behind ancient arbour (10)
12 Air seal perhaps, dull when uncapped? (5)
13 Sandy sugar producer? (4)
14 Octoroon from Middle East witness spotted around Thailand (6)
15 Like M. Antony in Shakespeare before crowd? (6)
17 Daily making face about vase (7)
18 To move about over theatre club, fans must enter its wings (8)
20 Worried about nuclear advance (4)
22 Barefoot runner, half cut, runs in sort of flip-flop! (4)
23 Dried fish from former times, then caught in race mostly (8)
25 Horse making circuit, lines fixed (7)
28 Put X in urn maybe, showing support as before (6)
30 Reid's outcry initially on chaotic Home Office (not expurgated)? (6)
31 Street shunned foul-smelling drunk (4)
32 One with flexible snout to bug tax authorities (5)
33 Weathered limestone? A rare sort's pounded (10, 2 words)
34 Where old bishop sat, if lad concocted tale (10)
 
Down
1 Barmy stuff, hydrogen, trapped in heavenly body zone (7)
2 Awful bore? Reaction is showing tendency to introspection (12)
3 Balletic leap - sounds like child's play, what? (5)
4 Genus of composites, silver inside heads (7)
5 Like tabby seeking refuge from dog, it briefly goes on top of thatching? (5)
6 Mouth full of monkey? It's excruciating for listeners (6)
7 Raincoat cut lower (4)
8 Despite being old, our last king's intervened in two sorts of trouble (8)
9 Supporter of evolutionary idea - season working away includes distribution of ideas (12)
10 We let out material for Scottish cavalry? (5)
16 Eastern bid includes bit of Romanian money, looking threatening? (8)
19 Extract from short celebration lifted for printing plate (7)
21 Field of medicine Jock's learning up to do with intestines (7)
24 Sellers and the like? Cracksman's targets (6)
25 Neat length (small) cut from joint (5)
26 Aussie expert aiming for old-fashioned grammar (5)
27 Cutey showing hint of poitrine amid corsage? (5)
29 Do you know what sushi's wrapped in? Me neither (4)
     


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