| ACROSS | DOWN |
|---|---|
| 1 Seasonal gifts (6,4) | 1 How hard is this crossword? (4) |
| 6&9 Accompaniment for 10 (4,5) | 2 Bushy-tailed mammals (9) |
| 9 ..see 6 | 3 Anal treatment (5) |
| 10 Cut of meat (3,2,4) | 4 Chipped flint stones (7) |
| 12 Accompaniment for 10 (8) | 5 First man in space (7) |
| 13 Belonging to them (5) | 7 Star struck (2,3) |
| 15 Isle of Wight rocks (7) | 8 Meeting place for worship (10) |
| 17 TV chef (7) | 11 Tiredness (7) |
| 19 ..see 24 | 14 Illegitimate (10) |
| 21 Everlasting (7) | 16 Irish county (7) |
| 22 Less common (5) | 18 Element (9) |
| 24&19 West-country food (7,7) | 20 Another helping? (7) |
| 27 Forcefulness (9) | 21 Solemn (7) |
| 28 Musical (5) | 23 Recovery (5) |
| 29 Initially has Diane Abbott’s big, socialist fingerprints all over it? (4) | 25 Cross (5) |
| 30 Constant temperature (10) | 26 Sounds like an appropriate ending for Dick! (4) |
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Answers with next week’s crossword.
Solution to Crossword No. 163
Across
7 Drug trafficking 9 Interdependence 10 Curse 11 Bad 12 Agile 15 Stushie 17 Loosest 19 Legal 20 Bag 21 Alive 25 Beyond the fringe 26 Arthur Donaldson
Down
1 Bring up the rear 2 Egress 3 Erode 4 Off peak 5 Signs 6 Skreighs 8 Nicola Sturgeon 13 Bin 14 Lot 16 Sea lochs 18 Cash cow 22 Lairds 23 Adorn 24 Offal
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