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A number of down answers have to be entered as jumbles for thematic reasons. The unchecked letters in the six-word phrase at 1ac 48ac form ITCHY BAKER. Chambers (1998) is recommended.
| Across 10 Republican patriarch's entertaining English evildoers (5) 14 Progress at work without taking drugs in bog (4) 15 Sailor taking pee, perhaps? That's ridiculous! (6) 16 Fragments gathered in minutes - dash back (8) 17 Who manages to steer tanker at first on Amazon? (9) 18 Lisle stockings concealing weapon (5) 19 School extracting hydrogen from fruit! (5) 20 Early calculator not requiring us to create diagram (4) 22 Group leaves takeaways at cricket grounds (5) 24 Bet the actress is seen endlessly resting! (4) 26 Old lover in abbreviated cartoon show? (5) 27 Account for salesman with truck (6) 28 I'll delay setting back revolutionary judge (8) 29 Pop group got older like mummy? (8) 30 Anarchic sit-ins brook no opposition (6) 32 Your bank's not completely in the City (5) 33 Square's able to create a good rhythm (4) 35 Lesbian takes no notice of family community (5) 36 Almost lose deliberately, from beginning to end (4) 38 Supreme being eats primitive fruit (5) 40 Bible of digital age? (5) 42 Risk, possibly, of directors getting disabled (9) 44 Shots made to test torn shirts, e.g. (8) 45 Footballer cut short by journalist played to an audience (6) 46 Tantalus and others in the same place (Iceland) (4) 47 Checks protuberance on board ship (5) |
Down 1 Used in the drive for cultivation? (7) 2 Who has no wife and a bad smell? (4) 3 What's rolled Mark and Violet up? (10, two words) 4 Close ranks with bishop in his jurisdiction (5) 5 Setter has underlying synopsis relating to consumer activity (9) 6 Knacker being cautious about horse's tail (5) 7 Silent, forgetting one's manners (4) 8 Lacking money for petticoat-tails? (10) 9 This solver's an extremely good one! (7) 11 Avoided spending, except on diamonds (5) 12 Knight, suffering needle, accepted his accolade? (7) 13 Inoffensive lecturer in rude environment (8) 19 Wash musical doctor's invention (10, two words) 21 State is confiscating licentious blouses (10) 23 Salt to stand still with name for Government (8) 25 Goddess amazingly turning out to be redhead? (9, two words) 28 Senior policeman removed from reference book in parsonage (7) 29 Light brown coin is copper within (7) 31 Altar-screen needs top adjusted for boring pests (7) 34 Gather idiot's admission (5) 37 Too big to be seen? Just a bit (5) 39 Hate to have no piano on stage (5) 41 I love silver, swapped for this? (4) 43 How I beg for feature to be passed on? (4) |
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