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Cryptic Crossword: July 2001
Complete completion will reveal a quotation, beginning with the last letter of 8 across and reading clockwise
round the grid's perimeter. This quotation, which comes from a line by 9 down
(unclued) and is included in The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, forms a statement about the location
of this puzzle.
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7 Lands with flowers from which car is excluded (7)
8 Quarrel producing adverse side-effects (7)
10 Desire harboured by unfit character (4)
11 Different article? See nothing right about it (5)
12 Publication, one for wise men? (4)
13 Stops being cold and relaxes (6)
15 Benevolence shown by affectionate gesture, embracing leader of nation with revolutionary purpose (8)
16 Observe some grey elephants (3)
17 Boisterous lads in Ibiza, for instance (6)
18 Painter with strange traits (6)
20 Walk home (3)
21 Fuel, as used in energy policy (8)
24 Shellfish from east in exotic story (6)
25 Atmosphere in chateau, rarefied (4)
26 Deposit and leave a hooded jacket (5)
27 Fellows associated with university, making list (4)
28 Is first of lockets received by girl temporarily lost? (7)
29 Sugar company, beginning to ship in sticky stuff (7)
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1 Indiscreet heroine of Hardy novel set about deed, then left (8)
2 Lofty greeting, by the sound of it (4)
3 Approved diarist's opening piece, in language accepted by editor (8)
4 Caution required round about rabbit's home (6)
5 Gets rid of terrible item in sale (10)
6 Around lake, insect starts to eat stuff - and swells (6)
9 Unclued (11)
14 A lob, seen as extraordinarily timely (10)
18 Lovely, eccentric road on island, going upward (8)
19 Most rigorous saint placed higher than Hemingway? (8)
22 Beginners in archaeology, not uninformed, boldly identify stern Egyptian god (6)
23 What's created by mischief-maker on appearance? Damage (6)
27 Chum altered a lot (4)
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