Crossword 659

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I I Vindictive article Eve flung out (9) stolen goods from 1142 TSuhpoporretcbeiaysee s(4t 0)

church in East Anglian area (6) 16 Aggressively masculine hair-cut (5)

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21 Swallow aimp lowo r t importance d(74 vomit (7)

24 Luminous phenomena upset our 25 Dwarfs only partly themselves (5) area (7) 28 Last longer than unfashionable 31 Reduce in rank — tar dies in con- clothing? (7)

con- tortions (7)

34 Speaks again without having time for news agency (7) 37 Inspired article - from Papal 38 Time with one alluring woman residence (5) (5) 39 Unending practice by a learner 43 Went Dutc organising Essex for test (6)

sheep. Darn!h (14, two words)

DOWN 1 One's love has to obstruct sign of pressure (6) 2 Group's manners (5) 3 Less cautious food (6) 4 You, once, had chaps here (5)

5 Erin's troubled isle's regressive passivity (7)

6 Shelter the Confederates? (7, two words) 7 Geometrician's new clue: one down (6) 8 Open record to be deprived of (8) 10 Treat old tinware in exciting va- cant property (10, three words) 22 Charm humorist in unnamed tribunal (7) 23 Cigars' source in small county (8) 27 Raise tax during topless affray (7) 29 Snooty dramatic situation (7) 30 US deb had new spiritual teacher (6) 32 Titanite uncovered by sheep straying round Norway (6) 33 Plants treated for caries (6) 35 Initial orgasm lost for slug (5) 36 Quilts lost volume in composi- tions (5)