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Across
- 1. Quickest to escape tax (8)
- 5. Wear down and badger a rogue abandoning girl (6)
- 10. Start to thrash spineless jerk (5)
- 11. Corrupt side protecting rake in debate (9)
- 12. Criticize prudish article penned by socialist (9)
- 13. Delicious cake cut by wife on vacation (5)
- 14. Brief love for one ailing (6)
- 15. Snakes concealed in topiary try to escape (7)
- 18. Mongrel bites scoundrel beginning to overpower caretaker (7)
- 20. Trail, extremely wild, going through valley (6)
- 22. Not good to complain and provoke (5)
- 24. Banks in decline, overwhelmed by concessions (9)
- 25. Feeling euphoric with a drug on which one gets an attitude of superiority (4,5)
- 26. Pursue and run after model (5)
- 27. Moving smoothly, new driver exits railway track used for shunting (6)
- 28. Fine girl beginning to economize in current recession (8)
Down
- 1. Approaching female for business in dress designing (6)
- 2. Wake-up call that’s a real surprise (3-6)
- 3. Spilled hot tea in kitchen? Grin and bear it (4,2,2,3,4)
- 4. Team member’s pitching style (7)
- 6. Exposes illegal activity and stops the game? (5,3,7)
- 7. A mysterious Earl killed in lofty place (5)
- 8. Projected net value’s falling (8)
- 9. Familiar with duets about love (4,2)
- 16. Mark’s girlfriend consuming ecstasy in front of bar (9)
- 17. Breaking records, champion drives rapidly (8)
- 19. Judge rose to restrain reactionary newspaper (6)
- 20. Speech in exotic citadel (7)
- 21. Too advanced and stylish (2,4)
- 23. Pushed spurious drug around England (5)
Published - May 06, 2019 12:05 am IST
