BIRDS by Egallus
The unclued lights are members of a larger set. Solvers should insert
into the two isolated squares the initial letters of the cause of the
problem. All lights are in C except
for 7, in OED.
ACROSS
1 Shearer: expert for shooting (3)
9 Civil action swirled round MP
(Liberal) (9)
10 Gazelle in grim horror (5)
13 Infested - sounds wonderful! (4)
15 New regime for supporter of ancient
one (6)
16 Excessively strong-smelling during
search (8)
18 Fabulous birds follow fees
&c. (4)
19 Measure girl: result ... (5)
23 ... middle class foreigners house
vessel (5)
26 Scabies - initially irritation, then
constant
hives (4)
28 Small coin (krona) inside. Fishy it's
not! A ...
(8)
29 ... sturgeon perhaps, old rod catches
number one
(6)
30 Fish (Indian), about 2lbs. (4)
32 Fiddle arrest for labour camp (5)
33 Ambassador puts work into episcopal
office
crystal (9)
35 Rune found by looking back into stony
writings
(3)
DOWN
2 Remove
workers? Egallus has under stroppy Hun
(6)
3 Yon
teen, troubled, may show
signs of this! (7)
4 Prayer
follows start of
studying to practise crystal-gazing (4)
5 Most
unsatisfactory temps tie
messy ... (8)
6 ...
feather above light
aircraft (it flies at night) (9)
7 Acquire
Chinese characteristics
- to be of consequence - no good (6)
8
Weaponless, as UK was before
Lamont's Black Wednesday (5)
14
Cyanide ruined spare suit (9)
17 Father
tops ridge weed; smooth
where aa is rough (8)
20 NE
England got rough raw deal
with Norway for king (7)
22 It
relates to sound of messy
Chopin (6)
24 Spice
girl local till in the
telly service (6)
27 Spill
tea, spilt round page,
right? (5)
30
Worried this is fatty tissue
(4)
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initials, to me at derekharrison@yahoo.com before the 8th June 2009.
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