The Archive · 1941

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This sort of job is not genuine like, the prices of the profiteer (6) 8 Now part of Jugo-Slavia (6)

9 The person whose opinion the professional may despise (6)

10 Silky covering that you get on after a nut (6)

11 This insect looks like a hen (8)

12 This is incurring danger in a ring 13 Again from the beginning (6) 14 For sewing the last letter is unnecessary and so really is the whole 17 One shouldn't appear this after a visit to the barber (7)

19 "Do, brute," (anag) (7)

23 Stressed to make an imp cheat (8) 27 Wily (6)

29 Bird (3)

30 Those who live thus ere not imjune from tears (3)

31 This bird has been observed en the back of a car (6)

32 A vegetable poison of America (6) 33 Foreign lady (6) M Birds have been observed to settle on this fish (5)

1 Start to aet as a foil (two words 2 Makes a loose bet but is not much used nowadays (8) 3 What establishment suggests a chess-an playing halma? (8) 4 fo, this rope need not be made of the matertat apparent (7) 5 This makes the business of 3 down 6 It must be wrong to say this musical instrument cannot be beaten (6) 7 Part of the Hebrides to which many men have recourse for cover (6 13 Suitable accent with which to sp: ak sharply (5) 15 A small point but valued by brides 16 Would a vegetarian eat this vegetable? (5) 18 Extinct bird observed in pictures of castle moat (3) 20 Flourish that may blind a horse t the halter behind one's back (8)

Disposed to silence (8) 22 A designing person (7) 25 the African Town of Indi. (6)

But for this payment native might live 30 across (two words—3, 3) 26 Vegetable (6) 28 Article or letter. that is the speculative view (6)

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