Crossword No. 120

30th May 2020 Going Postal Hobbies, Puzzles 4376 Comments

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ACROSS	DOWN
7 Fax sent to alien: “End of Dom after testing time in Durham” (5,4)	1&24 Congregation divided about vicar’s lamp (5,5)
8 Place bet on United States pipelines (5)	2 ..see 4
10 Get a tan in Paris? Only on one side! (8)	3 Resit English if you're up for it? (8)
11 Be confused - “I’m bi” - bottoms up! (6)	4&2 Drab, ancestral place where Dominic was spotted (7,6)
12 Lied about takeaway (4)	5 Boris’s style: an arse covered in gold chains? (8)
13 Updated: red Diane ended diet! (2-6)	6&22 Let’s do it for Euseless (RIP) – it’s a bigot extender! (3,6,4)
15&25 Zero censure for ‘tatty’ Cummings’s family home (7,6)	9 Sackings are rife (4)
17 It’s a hard life – I am in trough! (5,2)	14 Regretfully entered Soho ‘filly’ (9)
20 67% of Peking got ‘flu? No, that’s wrong! (8)	16 Cross-bencher has tranny ‘op’ (3-5)
22 ..see 6	18 Boris’s stubborn qualities are in doubt (8)
25 ..see 15	19 I snog Diane’s rear – a lot of pain involved! (7)
26 No rain in the North East? I don’t see a problem (8)	21 Endless excitement about news story (4)
27 Keir starts to play lute in Cummings’s old Durham club (5)	23 Enjoy starting a tinny when you're four score and ten (6)
28 Socialist leader protests about parking up on long-distance journey (4,5)	24 ..see 1

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Solution to Crossword No. 119

Across
1 Keukenhof 8 Garden centres 11 Mope 12 Slyly 13 Also 16 Tweeted 17 Slipway 18 Rarebit 20 Spiraea 21 Arch 22 Welsh 23 Impi 26 United Nations 27 Re-opening

Down
2 Ends 3 Kindled 4 Needles 5 Oats 6 Raspberry cane 7 Yellow jasmine 9 Amsterdam 10 Corydalis 14 Stabs 15 Dig in 19 Trend up 20 Sustain 24 Stye 25 Sign

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