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Crossword 14,885 Set by Mudd
ACROSS
1Defeat by narrow margin for the
twerp (9)
6Nag beginning to shiver, then in
need of a blanket? (5)
9Film from Japan on port wine (5)
10 Rough price, semi-wrong? (9)
11 Second note scrawled on pictures
(10)
12 Teaching time during winter
months (4)
14 Those cheering for pixies taken
aback a bit (7)
15 Good womaniser entertaining
good, keen follower (7)
17 Chance for first performance (7)
19 Name evidently forgotten, write
“Dolly Vardens” in card (7)
20 Duck joint (4)
22 Adopt the habits of one’s wife or
husband? (5-5)
25 Cook is anyone going beyond
starter of lentils with onions (9)
26 Boy’s name? Got it! (5)
27 Country needing soldiers behind
you (5)
28 Alluring snare, perfect celebration
backfiring (5,4)
DOWN
1French city is substandard? (5)
2Shop ordered pepper primarily,
with extreme loathing for salt (9)
3Shot of tequila about right – this
supposedly lucky? (10)
4Event is confined to school in
case of earthquake (7)
5A half and a whole fish for author
(7)
6Basic construction abandoned (4)
7In abeyance – everything nasty
then? (2,3)
8Diameters in circles, most
beautiful (9)
13 A close game? (5,5)
14 Promise head of parliamentarian
in slaughter, fighting with blades
(9)
16 Someone driven to succeed in
exam on difficult genre (9)
18 Tastelessly showy houses
nauseating at first – so decorate!
(7)
19 Film wife, if not the rear! (7)
21 Roar from engine, as low revs
regularly turned up (5)
23 Fight a bit (5)
24 Latin year’s ending coming up –
so soon? (4)
Copies of How to Sound Clever by Hubert van
den Bergh and So You Think You Can Spell by
David L. Grambs and Ellen S. Levine, published
by A&C Black, will be awarded to the senders of
the first three correct entries opened on
Wednesday April 1. Entries marked Crossword
14,885 on the envelope, should be sent to
Weekend FT, One Southwark Bridge, London
SE1 9HL. Solution on April 4.
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