SunWeb31 by Athos

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ACROSS

1 Steeplechases, no tea and tonguetied (10)

6 Short high tone or insect waste (4)
10 Albert has left the amalgam behind for hot rocks (5)
11 The lingo then is nobly illuminated (4,5)
12 Sounds like a hesitation after a short time, gives an impulse (8)
13 Its hard to have a meal around tea (5)
15 A shy trio for the record (7)
17 Needle before the strike of ten (4-3)
19 Cyprus would be bloody, I hear (7)
21 Underwater breeder, I hear a noise at night around 10:00 before fifty (7)
22 Avoid the fence? (5)
24 Sublime opera is five (8)
27 This band is not on the long acre (9)
28 Sounds like he didn't go sober (5)
29 It is usual for him to be around before noon (4)
30 Edward is back around before the race goes off (10)
DOWN
1 'es not unchanged in the seed (4)
2 Dons the serge while wrapped in thought (9)
3 Clear county to the west (5)
4 Your valley drawn out in verse (7)
5 At present mother is poles apart with coal eyes (7)
7 Eaten before nine, I hear (5)
8 Testily put neatly before fifty (10)
9 Fire north before the firm for a dance (8)
14 Make tea and butter around the black tongued dog in this Dublin village (10)
16 Do remote measurement of distance travelled (8)
18 I ask him for paint in Asia (9)
20 This groupie has a ballot in the river (7)
21 The rector comes around to sing llike this (7)
23 Hundreds at the heart of the ornamentation (5)
25 A red dwarf around the Jamaican 20 down (5)
26 Oh what a noise, my god (4)
Full Solution
ACROSS
1 speechless.
S [TE] EPLECH[A]SES [deletion anagram]
6 beep.
BEE P
10 magma.
AM [AL]GAM [deletion anagram]
11 neon light.
LINGO THEN [anagram]
12 momentum.
MOMENT + UM
13 metal.
ME + T + AL
15 history.
SHY TRIO [anagram]
17 nine-pin.
NINE-PIN
19 redwood.
RED WOOD
21 snorkel.
SNOR [K] E + L
22 hedge.
HEDGE
24 vaporise.
OPERA IS V [anagram]
27 orchestra.
SHORT ACRE [anagram]
28 staid.
STAID [phononym]
29 norm.
MORN [anagram]
30 detonation.
DET O NATION
DOWN
1 same.
S [ES] AME deletion
2 engrossed.
DONS SERGE [anagram]
3 Clare.
CLEAR [anagram]
4 lengthy.
THY GLEN [anagram]
5 snowman.
S + NOW + MA + N
7 eight.
EIGHT phononym
8 petulantly.
PUT NEATLY L [anagram]
9 flamenco.
FLAME N CO
14 CHURCHTOWN.
CHUR + CH [T]OW + N
16 odometer.
DO REMOTE [anagram]
18 Pakistani.
I ASK PAINT [anagram]
20 devotee.
DE + VOTE + E
21 soprano.
PARSON + O [anagram]
23 decor.
CO + D + RE [anagram]
25 Rasta.
A STAR [anagram]
26 Odin.
O DIN

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SunWeb30 by Athos

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1 I am a writer and I met with Simple Simon (6)

4 This firm sets free the regions (8)

9 Brian Cowan returns here for a lay-off (6)

10 Almost clears off outdoors (8)

12 Ten is in the picture (5)

13 Gory nude on board like this (9)

15 Choose this with charge (3)

16 Advance to one of 4 across without Edward (5)

17 Canter about under a spell (6)

22 Set back around the pub for a set (6)

24 Let the artist paint around on it (5)

27 About about before (3)

28 A grey brown fish truck on the south coast (9)

31 The French sphere is around the very old Evil Eye here (5)

32 Most holy, swimmingly (8)

33 David was given it back in a case (6)

34 Adjacent to the Loch (8)

35 The priest came before 27 across to give respect (6)


DOWN

1 Round five, the heir to the throne is one of four here (8)

2 Gushing, if you and I charge five (8)

3 Call a note, suddenly (3,2,4)

5 No sqeaks from this oldie (5)

6 Forward relation (5)

7 First after an error's about to take a firm stand (6)

8 Not blades of grass north of Dublin (6)

11 You have given us mature meat, I hear (6)

14 Sail before the wind (3)

18 The peasants agree without father (6)

19 'e has a bracelet, throw a party (9)

20 Fastener record, for manicure (4-4)

21 Rider on this Loch comes from behind (8)

23 In the south-east this makes a rattling noise (3)

25 With a good chance of success, its not evens off (4-2)

26 Rabbits, goats and cats have a groan here (6)

29 What to do with a hunch (3,2)

30 The five lots have potential (5)

Full Solution

ACROSS

1 pieman.

I AM PEN [anagram]

4 counties.

CO UNTIES

9 Offaly.

LAY OFF [anagram]

10 alfresco.

CLEARS OF[F]

12 inset.

TEN IS [anagram]

13 undressed.

RED NUDE SS [anagram]

15 opt.

OPT [ION]

16 Cavan.

A [D] VANC[E] deletion anagram

17 trance.

CANTER [anagram]

22 tennis.

TE [NNI] S

24 lease.

EASEL [anagram]

27 ere.

[E [R] E]

28 Dungarvan.

DUN GAR VAN

31 Balor.

LA ORB [anagram]

32 smoothly.

MOST HOLY [anagram]

33 dative.

DA [TI] VE

34 nearness.

NEAR NESS

35 revere.

REV ERE

DOWN

1 province.

PR + O + V + INCE

2 effusive.

IF US FEE V [anagram]

3 all at once.

CALL A NOTE [anagram]

5 oiled.

OLDIE [anagram]

6 nurse.

NURSE

7 insist.

SIN + IST [anagram]

8 Swords.

SWORDS

11 mutton.

YOU phononym EWE meat = MUTTON

14 run.

RUN

18 assent.

[P] E [A]SANTS [anagram]

19 celebrate.

E + CELEBRATE [anagram]

20 nail-file.

NAIL FILE

21 derrière.

RIDER + REE [anagram]

23 nor.

[S] NOR [E]

25 odds-on.

ODDS-ON

26 angora.

A GROAN [anagram]

29 act on.

ACT ON

30 volts.

V + LOTS [anagram]

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SunWeb29 by Athos

SunWeb29 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb29, a little late but worth the wait.

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ACROSS
1 One Mayday and a hundred long fish around, with equal legs (9)
9 One hundred and fifty one with a revolutionary, is a truism (6)
10 Distribute drab coats (9)
11 Doesn't sound like a pleasant beer (6)
12 The priest could be central to the ceremony (9)
13 You have an appointment with Pooh's pal to shoot a star, I hear (6)
17 Whichever way you look at it, you get an energy boost (3)
19 Eve was late to rise (7)

20 The French wise men lasted well (7)

21 A currently elected politician in England (3)

23 Take food in silence, in the knife case (6)

27 Letter cases (9)

28 dr. not DR., unsuited to the airman (6)
29 It sound like it could be done by a bovine (9)
30 A revolutionary after counsel, be afraid (6)
31 The end of 30 across is back before the imposter with this little weapon (9)

DOWN
2 If I was not insincere, it could be a riddle (6)
3 Climbed a hundred in the dales (6)
4 Replay (6)
5 Without fifty one licensees around to get the gist (7)
6 Change about time to find the height (9)
7 Spread wide like dry Orient in 30 across (9)
8 Violence for political ends, with German errors (9)
14 Impairs silent s's with despair (9)
15 Play it again Sally, just for practice (9)
16 Ban the caring publican (9)
17 Led after this legume for belly sound (3)
18 Cleric about with a winner supports Rome, what drivel (3)
22 By order, Daniel is about to be married (7)
24 Males at the summit, teach (6)
25 Rubber 23 across around for todays appliance (3,3)
26 Protrusive insect (6)



Full Solution
ACROSS
1 isosceles.
I + SOS +C+ EELS [anagram]
9 cliché.
CLI + CHE
10 broadcast.
DRAB COATS [anagram]
11 bitter.
BITTER
12 celebrant.
BE CENTRAL [anagram]
13 meteor.
MEET EEYORE phononym METEOR
17 pep.
PEP
19 elevate.
EVE LATE [anagram]
20 ageless.
LE + SAGES [anagram]
21 amp.
A MP
23 sheath.
SH [EAT] H eat in shh
27 envelopes.
ENVELOPES
28 marina.
AIRMAN [anagram]
29 masticate.
MASTICATE - chew the cud
30 scared.
SC A RED
31 derringer.
DER RINGER
DOWN
2 screen.
S [I] NCERE deletion anagram
3 scaled.
C + DALES [anagram]
4 encore.
ENCORE
5 essence.
[LI] CENSEES [deletion anagram]
6 altimeter.
AL [TIME] TER
7 scattered.
SCA + [TT + E] + RED
8 terrorism.
MIT ERRORS [anagram]
14 pessimism.
IM IM P ESS'S [anagram]
15 rehearsal.
RE HEAR SAL
16 bartender.
BAR TENDER
17 pea.
PEA [LED]
18 pap.
A PP [IST] anagram
22 mandate.
M [AND] ATE
24 mentor.
MEN TOR
25 mod con.
CONDOM [anagram]
26 beetle.

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SunWeb28 by Athos

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8 Edward was elected to get the eaglet (8)
9 Periods of one hundred hopes (6)
10 Changed about the diva (6)
11 Raucous tridents about (8)
12 Nine year old's dream, like a familiar walking route (6)
13 'es transported goods before tea, eaten slow (8)
15 A bottle stopper down south (4)
17 A thousand cheers for this plotter (7)
19 Not in editions, though highly charged (7)
22 These donations settle down after a hundred (4)
24 Bees fail to find a workable solution (8)
27 Races down south for a gentle rub (6)
29 He had made a fire before the giant came around and went to court (8)
30 Hidden talent (6)
31 The ancients, with no saint had gone gone like the dogs (6)
32 Planned to have eaten around ten (8)

DOWN
1 Not berate with oxygen (6)
2 Denigrate, like a young child (8)
3 Soft-shoe on the waterspout (3-5)
4 Slew her for not paying up (7)
5 Ironic that the old Force came last (6)
6 Does this river waddle through Dublin (6)
7 Polished writer around the lower leg (8)
14 A grand apres-ski for a liquid layer (4)
16 Unwritten or the return of the French (4)
18 A grand chalice contains a reactant (8)
20 Give you a closet kiss (8)
21 Rock and roll was an annoyance to Titian, the old master (8)
23 About the limit in the county (7)
25 I take my clothes off with intent (6)
26 Prepare a round of bread Edward, on the face of it like a bird (6)
28 The islander lost forty nine to be a polisher (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
8 delegate.
ED + EAGLET [anagram]
9 epochs.
C HOPES[anagram]
10 varied.
RE DIVA [anagram]
11 strident.
TRIDENTS [anagram]
12 beaten.
BE A TEN
13 escargot.
ES CARGO T
15 Cork.
CORK
17 schemer.
M CHEERS [anagram]
19 ionised.
EDI [T] IONS [deletion anagram]
22 alms.
[C] ALMS
24 feasible.
BEES FAIL [anagram]
27 caress.
RACES + S [anagram]
29 litigant.
LIT + GIANT [anagram]
30 latent.
TALENT [anagram]
31 canine.
ANCIEN [TS] deletion anagram
32 intended.
DINED TEN [anagram]


DOWN
1 aerate.
A + ERATE not B + ERATE
2 belittle.
BE LITTLE
3 tap-dance.
TAPDANCE
4 welsher.
SLEW + HER [anagram]
5 ferric.
FER RIC
6 Dodder.
Dodder
7 shinbone.
SHONE + NIB [anagram]
14 skim.
SKI + M
16 oral.
OR LA [anagram]
18 chemical.
M + CHALICE [anagram]
20 osculate.
U A CLOSET [anagram]
21 irritant.
RR + TITIAN [anagram]
23 Leitrim.
RE + LIMIT [anagram]
25 spirit.
I + STRIP [anagram]
26 beaked.
BAKE + ED [anagram]
28 sander.
[I] S [L] ANDER

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SunWeb27 by Athos

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1 Of fundamental importance or a ruddy capped measuring stick (1,8,4)

10 I am a moan, but I can bring you to your senses (7)

11 This line is on court at the same height (7)

12 Not in play of late (4)

13 Refined about the South, a money bag (5)

15 A goddess found in Thebes (4)

17 Not, I hear (3)

19 Father, have you taken these (6)

21 Would you grow a little one (6)

22 Rustled up a sweet one (7)

23 Bloody past-pupil (3,3)

25 Gratitude in China for domesticating the shrew (6)

27 For this, I cannot remember (3)

29 One mother leads prayers (4)

30 One needs a point, to help you get to the top (5)

31 Wager a letter (4)

34 After tea you and me cover a foot with a bunch of grass (7)

35 Quiet, the French piece of stiff paper is a poster (7)

36 The acrobat did cry when he lived in this paper town (9,4)



DOWN

2 He who gives 19 across is in this (7)

3 Right liquid for writing on thin ice here (4)

4 The artist has one in a repetitively boring way (2,1,3)

5 Use a little volume to charge (6)

6 Had made the call from the ladder (4)

7 With fifty one around the Loch, she has pride (7)

8 They will get to the heart of matters (13)

9 Sent to say hello, has sir cantered his horse about (8,5)

14 There's fifty in virtue, in a little watery way (7)

16 Andirons with no noise about, is a crime (5)

18 Fly high around fifty for this type of energy (5)

20 Sixty minus nine gives a pig pen (3)

21 Stake, miss a beat (3)

24 No life in this water (4,3)

26 Nice tax if rounded off (7)

27 Living fossil is no blooming tree, drink a thousand and don't stay (6)

28 Can a headless plug still wear a hat (6)

32 Before the cold be brave (4)

33 Soapy stone with a feline around fifty (4)


Full Solution

ACROSS


1 a cardinal rule.

A CARDINAL RULE

10 ammonia.

IM A MOAN [anagram]

11 contour.

ON CONTOUR [anagram]

12 dead.

DEAD

13 purse.

PUR [S] E

15 Hebe.

[T] HEBE [S]

17 tie.

TIE [ knot]

19 orders.

ORDERS [religious orders]

21 bonsai.

BONSAI

22 strudel.

RUSTLED [anagram]

23 old boy.

BLOODY [anagram]

25 taming.

TA MING

27 get.

[FOR] GET

29 imam.

I MAM

30 piton.

POINT [anagram]

31 beta.

BET A

34 tussock.

T US SOCK

35 placard.

P LA CARD

36 cardboard city.

ACROBAT DID CRY [anagram]


DOWN

2 command.

COMMAND

3 rink.

R INK

4 in a rut.

RA UNIT [anagram]

5 accuse.

USE A CC [anagram]

6 rung.

RUNG

7 lioness.

LI O NESS

8 Cardiologists.

CARDIOLOGISTS

9 greeting cards.

SIR CANTERED GG [anagram]

14 rivulet.

L VIRTUE [anagram]

16 arson.

A [NDI] RONS [anagram]

18 solar.

SA [L] AR

20 sty.

S [IX] TY [deletion]

21 bet.

BE [A] T [deletion]

24 Dead Sea.

DEAD SEA

26 inexact.

NICE TAX [anagram]

27 ginkgo.

GIN K GO

28 topper.

[S] topper [deletion]

32 bold.

B OLD

33 talc.

CAT L [anagram]


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SunWeb26 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb26 and apologies for being a little late.

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ACROSS


1 She rules the tribe from an armchair after tea (9)

9 Grandmother in a sheepish call for fruit (6)

10 Bet red or black around here about the outlet (8)

11 Forty nine in the face is easy (6)

12 The French cheese is around the dry one, not so sweet (6)

14 Tastes like 12 across and is not very basic (4)

15 With Richard you can choose a charge (5)

16 Covert disease carrier (6)

18 The reverend mother takes in counsel, it's a sore point (7)

21 Moss is around to balance the concentration (7)

24 Elbows out, and knees too, sounds like a Kimberley with no hygeine (6)

26 A verse without five about will rub it out (5)

30 No firm coupon, to keep a breast (2,2)

31 Give back the plaster (6)

32 The thing is, I had lost my identity (6)

33 Here I dined with the novice (8)

34 Or walk around Wicklow here (6)

35 Reunited up North by contract (9)
DOWN

2 No grand domains, said the handsome youth (6)

3 The senior clergyman lost his head to tell the story (6)

4 I treat myself to some clothes (6)

5 Create about a thousand by fire (7)

6 On the face of it fathers's around in it too (6)

7 Edward is into tiaras, and how he glows (8)

8 Charges at the door to intrude (4-5)

11 Nearly at sixes and sevens (5)

13 Half a century with the buzz on this river (4)

17 Counsel can do with his help, a regal pal (9)

19 I shake it and eat it back East (8)

20 With a piano it is inclined to be messy (5)

22 Could be a grand use of inspiration (4)

23 The first is back after a few decades (7)

25 Close your shirt, not in the tub (6)

27 Come to a river (6)

28 Silent draft (6)

29 Gets the game up in the air, thanks back in the ale (6)

Full Solution
 
ACROSS


1 matriarch.

ARMCHAIR T [anagram]

9 banana.

BA [NAN] A

10 roulette.

RE OUTLET [anagram]

11 facile.

FAC [IL] E

12 bitter.

BI + TT + ER

14 acid.

ACID

15 elect.

ELECT [RIC]

16 vector.

COVERT [anagram]

18 abscess.

AB + SC + ESS

21 osmosis.

MOSS IS [anagram]

24 akimbo.

A KIM BO

26 erase.

A [V]ERSE [deleteion anagram]

30 up on.

[CO] UP ON

31 render.

RENDER

32 entity.

[ID] ENTITY

33 initiate.

IN IT I ATE

34 Arklow.

OR WALK [anagram]

35 indenture.

REUNITED + N [anagram]
DOWN

2 Adonis.

DO [M] AINS [deletion anagram]

3 relate.

[P] RELATE

4 attire.

I TREAT [anagram]

5 cremate.

CRE M ATE

6 facade.

FAC [AD] E

7 radiates.

ED + TIARAS [anagram]

8 gate-crash.

CHARGES AT [anagram]

11 fives.

FIVES

13 Elbe.

L + BEE [anagram]

17 paralegal.

A REGAL PAL [anagram]

19 shiitake.

I SHAKE IT

20 slopy.

SLOP [P] Y

22 muse.

M + USE

23 tension.

TENS I ON

25 button.

NOT TUB [anagram]

27 arrive.

A RIVER [anagram]

28 enlist.

SILENT [anagram]

29 beater.

BE AT ER


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SunWeb25 by Athos

Welcome to SunWeb25
Congratulations and Happy Birthday wishes to Derek Crozier, long time crossword setter to The Irish Times who this coming week will celebrate the publishing of his 1400th puzzle and the next day his 92nd. birthday.

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ACROSS

1 One metal two colours I see (10)

6 Southern wine is a hole, I hear, the beast (4)

10 Carps on a little bit (5)

11 See the lens on board, though unconscious (9)

12 Damn lass on the continent (8)

13 Improve after noon (5)

15 Around the side with hundreds the insect may react (7)

17 Disloyalty of the senator (7)

19 Leaves here with a crown (7)

21 Feel line, I hear (3-4)
22 I am not A, with you I hear it soak (5)
24 Aren't cut short? (8)
27 Live here on board (5-4)
28 See there, the French say there's oil in Virginia (5)
29 South of Houston Street from New York to London town (4)
30 Dry grannies with a bitter taste (10)


DOWN
1 A thousand in the hearth for a brew (4)
2 A tall tale of how to avert the rain (9)
3 Chew this for love around twenty two over seven (5)
4 Begin again about the southern pie (7)
5 Mend its attitude (4-3)
7 A weighty honour towards 4:30 (5)
8 I need cress in my houses (10)
9 Indulgent Declan has made his mark (8)
14 Legend illuminators on stage (10)
16 Like a beast in rut, as the editor learnt (8)
18 As a holy one, lit about in Oriental rice liquor (9)
20 Bring back the highest charges for the magic drinks (7)
21 One hundred flock to the North (7)
23 Half a century goes red in the shrub (5)
25 Spanish sparkler goes north to the county (5)
26 Without us the wealth will be about to stop (4)

Full Solution
ACROSS


1 monochrome.

MONO CHROME

6 boar.

BOAR [ S WINE ]

10 scrap.

CARPS [ anagram]

11 senseless.

SEE LENS SS [anagram]

12 landmass.

DAMN LASS [anagram]

13 amend.

AM END

15 oxidant.

O XI D ANT

17 treason.

SENATOR [ anagram]

19 treetop.

TREETOP

21 cat-like.

CAT-LIKE

22 imbue.

I'M B UE

24 truncate.

ARENT CUT [anagram]

27 house-boat.

HOUSE BOAT

28 voilà.

V OIL A

29 Soho.

SO HO

30 astringent.

TT GRANNIES [ anagram ]


DOWN

1 mash.

M ASH

2 narrative.

AVERT RAIN [narrative]

3 cupid.

CU [PI] D

4 restart.

STARTERS [anagram]

5 mind-set.

MEND ITS [anagram]

7 obese.

OBE SE

8 residences.

I NEED CRESS [ anagram]

9 decadent.

DEC A DENT

14 footlights.

FOOT LIGHTS

16 antlered.

RED TALENT [anagram]

18 saintlike.

SA [IN + TLI ] KE

20 potions.

POT IONS

21 cluster.

C + ULSTER [anagram]

23 blush.

B [ L ] USH

25 Cavan.

CAVA N

26 halt.

[WE] ALTH


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SunWeb24 by Athos

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ACROSS


1 As a seaman in California with a yellow skin (6)

4 This grand maestro monkeys about with claws (8)

9 Tea urn in the wild (6)

10 'e trots ten back slowly (8)

12 A grand tragic King rules around here (5)

13 After around in the word for this southern city (9)

15 When we will arrive for tea (3)

16 Counsel ten about for fragrance (5)

17 It wasn't Harold, I heard the Cockney certify it (6)

22 You'll find no former hexagram up north (6)

24 Yoh in the States for some oriental sauce (5)

27 With beer you could be stuck on the rascal (3)

28 Classic condiment for the bath (5,4)

31 £100 to get one seen urgently at the hospital! (3-2)

32 A vanishing bed on a fowl day (8)

33 That's clever, father came before the riot disbanded (6)

34 Use oars then in this cold water (5,3)

35 Blimey, cry about Isaac (6)


DOWN

1 Cornelius and Reginald are around for this meeting on board (8)

2 Its not in attitudes where this is located (8)

3 Weatherglass, with a degree in Italy for good measure (9)

5 Stop before the end when vibrato loses a half a dozen (5)

6 Rhythm on the end of 3 down (5)

7 Traveller, outfitter, infantryman ........ (6)

8 Rent by the yard to be fashionable (6)

11 Izaac is looking pale back around the celebration (6)

14 This time is not a certain erasure (3)

18 Thanks, hello it is back in this exotic place (6)

19 He gives back chat, while he ponders about it (9)

20 Both ends of a commute after school (8)

21 A rodentlike bread roll in Clare, I hear (8)

23 She's not a double nor a single (3)

25 Fastened with no saint to numb the sense, I hear (6)

26 No grand marshal on these stone blocks (6)

29 Hamlet lost fifty around the county (5)

30 Firefighter Red in Limerick (5)


Full Solution

ACROSS


1 casaba.

C AS AB A [type of melon]

4 marmoset.

M + MAESTRO [anagram]

9 nature.

TEA URN [anagram]

10 tortoise.

TORT OI SE

12 realm.

LEAR + M [anagram]

13 Waterford.

W + AFTER [anagram] + ORD

15 eta.

TEA [anagram]

16 scent.

SC + TEN [anagram]

17 notary.

NOT 'AR[R]Y

22 Armagh.

H [EX] AGRAM [deletion anagram]

24 shoyu.

SHOYU

27 imp.

IMP [ALE] deletion

28 Epsom salt.

EPSOM + SALT

31 one-er.

ONE -ER [slang for 100 pounds sterling]

32 foldaway.

A FOWL DAY [anagram]

33 adroit.

DA RIOT [anagram]

34 North Sea.

OARS THEN [anagram]

35 crikey.

CR + IKE + Y


DOWN

1 congress.

CON + REG + SS [anagram]

2 situated.

A [T] TITUDES

3 barometer.

BA {RO {ME} TER}

5 abort.

[VI] BRATO [deletion anagram]

6 meter.

METER

7 sailor.

SAILOR [tinker, tailor, soldier ..........]

8 trendy.

RENT YD [anagram]

11 kwanza.

K WAN ZA

14 era.

ERA [SURE] deletion

18 Tahiti.

TA HI TI

19 responder.

PONDERS RE [anagram]

20 homework.

HOME WORK

21 Bunratty.

BUN RATTY

23 Mrs.

MRS

25 deafen.

FA [ST] ENED

26 ashlar.

[M] ARSHAL [deletion anagram]

29 Meath.

HAM [L] ET [deletion anagram]

30 Adare.

{RED} ADARE


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SunWeb23 by Athos

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8 I am hailed by the seaside north of Dublin (8)

9 Ah, your old father's about and you don't care (6)

10 Rein in the orange-brown horse (6)

11 Sent it back around the north-east with feeling (8)

12 With fifty and the lady's crown you might be caught in the loop (6)

13 The gall of that outside the city (8)

15 Sounds like you might cry this after a row (4)

17 A grand mistake before the charge in the square in Dublin (7)

19 A garland, cut in the county (7)

22 Stop the flow with the saint when I come back (4)

24 Sounds like a hair-do he has eaten passes through (8)

27 This miss has not run over and out (6)

29 A clean bin to hold the compass on board (8)

30 Scotsman back for the crude metal (2,4)

31 Sounds like you agree to sow it (6)

32 Pass away north after this honour before tea and be compliant (8)


DOWN

1 This layer is no animal (6)

2 The French boar gave us a song and sounded untruthful (8)

3 After 51 and A, the river mammal came back in this musical script (8)

4 It's a wise bet that you'll find it online (7)

5 The Cardinal has lost his identity and become of the flesh (6)

6 The captain has lost his head on the surface of the metal (6)

7 Kidnap on board, in this Eastern city (8)

14 Grain cereal in by this Cheltenham district (4)

16 Not out on the street this month (4)

18 Sounds like I'll look through it to put it together (3-5)

20 God with us, I am around by hand and back with the French (8)

21 The part of the wheel in the rut with six and the three in charge of old Rome (8)

23 The Queen dotes on shipworm (7)

25 Where to get a stable diet with 1000 cross (6)

26 Bowed to reach hundreds (6)

28 Unpredictable ranter (6)


Full Solution

ACROSS

8 Malahide.

AM HAILED [anagram]

9 apathy.

A + PA + THY

10 ginger.

REIN + GG [anagram]

11 sentient.

SENT IT NE [anagram]

12 lariat.

L + TIARA [anagram]

13 Tallaght.

GALL + THAT [anagram]

15 tier.

TIER

17 Merrion.

M + ERR + ION

19 Leitrim.

LEI + TRIM

22 stem.

ST + EM

24 permeate.

PERM + E + ATE

27 maiden.

MAIDEN [over as in cricket]

29 binnacle.

CLEAN + BIN [anagram]

30 no more.

NO M + ORE

31 accede.

ACCEDE [ sounds like 'a seed']

32 obedient.

OBE + DIE + N + T

DOWN

1 lamina.

ANIMAL [anagram]

2 sanglier.

SANG + LIER

3 libretto.

LI + B + RETTO
4 website.

WISE + BET [anagram]

5 carnal.

CAR [DI] NAL deletion

6 patina.

[C] APTAIN [deletion anagram]

7 shanghai.

SHANGHAI

14 arle.

[B] ARLE [Y]

16 INST.

IN + ST

18 eye-piece.

EYE + PIECE

20 Emmanuel.

EM + MANU + EL

21 triumvir.

RIM + RUT + VI [anagram]

23 teredos.

ER + DOTES [anagram]

25 manger.

M + ANGER

26 arched.

REACH + D [anagram]

28 errant.

RANTER [anagram]

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SunWeb22 by Athos

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ACROSS


8 I am hailed by the seaside north of Dublin (8)

9 Ah, your old father's about and you don't care (6)

10 Rein in the orange-brown horse (6)

11 Sent it back around the north-east with feeling (8)

12 With fifty and the lady's crown you might be caught in the loop (6)

13 The gall of that outside the city (8)

15 Sounds like you might cry this after a row (4)

17 A grand mistake before the charge in the square in Dublin (7)

19 A garland, cut in the county (7)

22 Stop the flow with the saint when I come back (4)

24 Sounds like a hair-do he has eaten passes through (8)

27 This miss has not run over and out (6)

29 A clean bin to hold the compass on board (8)

30 Scotsman back for the crude metal (2,4)

31 Sounds like you agree to sow it (6)

32 Pass away north after this honour before tea and be compliant (8)


DOWN

1 This layer is no animal (6)

2 The French boar gave us a song and sounded untruthful (8)

3 After 51 and A, the river mammal came back in this musical script (8)

4 It's a wise bet that you'll find it online (7)

5 The Cardinal has lost his identity and become of the flesh (6)

6 The captain has lost his head on the surface of the metal (6)

7 Kidnap on board, in this Eastern city (8)

14 Grain cereal in by this Cheltenham district (4)

16 Not out on the street this month (4)

18 Sounds like I'll look through it to put it together (3-5)

20 God with us, I am around by hand and back with the French (8)

21 The part of the wheel in the rut with six and the three in charge of old Rome (8)

23 The Queen dotes on shipworm (7)

25 Where to get a stable diet with 1000 cross (6)

26 Bowed to reach hundreds (6)

28 Unpredictable ranter (6)

Full Solution

8 Malahide.


AM HAILED [anagram]

9 apathy.

A + PA + THY

10 ginger.

REIN + GG [anagram]

11 sentient.

SENT IT NE [anagram]

12 lariat.

L + TIARA [anagram]

13 Tallaght.

GALL + THAT [anagram]

15 tier.

TIER

17 Merrion.

M + ERR + ION

19 Leitrim.

LEI + TRIM

22 stem.

ST + EM

24 permeate.

PERM + E + ATE

27 maiden.

MAIDEN [over as in cricket]

29 binnacle.

CLEAN + BIN [anagram]

30 no more.

NO M + ORE

31 accede.

ACCEDE [ sounds like 'a seed']

32 obedient.

OBE + DIE + N + T


DOWN

1 lamina.

ANIMAL [anagram]

2 sanglier.

SANG + LIER

3 libretto.

LI + B + RETTO



4 website.

WISE + BET [anagram]

5 carnal.

CAR [DI] NAL deletion

6 patina.

[C] APTAIN [deletion anagram]

7 shanghai.

SHANGHAI

14 arle.

[B] ARLE [Y]

16 INST.

IN + ST

18 eye-piece.

EYE + PIECE

20 Emmanuel.

EM + MANU + EL

21 triumvir.

RIM + RUT + VI [anagram]

23 teredos.

ER + DOTES [anagram]

25 manger.

M + ANGER

26 arched.

REACH + D [anagram]

28 errant.

RANTER [anagram]

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SunWeb21 by Athos

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1 Iberian castle wines (6,3,4)

10 Grecian tipple retains a resin flavour (7)

11 I see the harbour around this entrance (7)

12 Quiet help with no more expense (4)

13 After tea on court in the West (5)

15 Meet 'er in verse, I hear (4)

17 The saint has lost it, yet retains his identity (3)

19 Windy's music with 15 across, I hear (6)

21 He is not about to be bothered with his bills (6)

22 Farmer shoots arrows northwards (7)

23 There is a hundred in the set and six legs too (6)

25 The Sultan ate one French rib (6)

27 He is around the Ladies here (3)

29 Typical, no man around (4)

30 Gullible Irishman (5)

31 It is not with tubing you close the hole (4)

34 Bringing four to the altar is hard work (7)

35 I go back for a drink there and stop commerce (7)

36 Turn the e-mail typo around in a begging way (13)


DOWN

2 Greet the abstainer with gin, striking (7)

3 Disarm without the lady with an ambush (4)

4 Longs for a time at the poles (6)

5 The god is back before his family with a bib (6)

6 Sounds like you cut the fruit down bit by bit (4)

7 Fancy dress for me on the train (7)

8 Consumed no amateur helping in a balanced way (13)

9 Quiet or pitch the heavy fish around the Midlands (13)

14 Northern slope at the start (7)

16 The stuffing of comedy (5)

18 Alone in the south-west, with 13a in Wicklow (5)

20 When do you think you will come to tea? (3)

21 No credit without it and she comes of age (3)

24 A Catholic in celebration with scorn (7)

26 No charge here on the fence (7)

27 With fifty in the metal made a hammer (6)

28 Senators not so far back on board (6)

32 Raise the pitch with nothing on ahead (4)

33 Help to do no good with 15 across around (4)

Full Solution

ACROSS

1 SHERRY AND PORT.

Sherry and Port are fortified wines

10 retsina.

RETAINS [anagram]

11 portico.

PORT + I C + O

12 paid.

PAID

13 Ennis.

[T] ENNIS

15 beat.

BEAT

17 san.

San as in San Francisco

19 reggae.

West Indies music = reggae

21 debtor.

BOT [HE] RED deletion anagram

22 rancher.

ARCHER + N [anagram]

23 insect.

IN + SE [C] T

25 Brunei.

UNE + RIB [anagram]

27 mna.

MAN [anagram] = Gaelic for ladies

29 norm.

NO + MR [anagram]

30 patsy.

PATSY

31 bung.

[T] + UB +[I] + NG deletion anagram

34 travail.

IV + ALTAR [anagram]

35 embargo.

ME + BAR + GO [anagram]

36 importunately.

TURN EMAIL TYPO [anagram]


DOWN

2 hitting.

HI + TT +GIN [anagram]

3 raid.

DI [S] AR [M] delete Ms

4 yearns.

YEAR + NS

5 napkin.

NAP + KIN

6 pare.

PARE

7 raiment.

ME + TRAIN [anagram]

8 proportionate.

PRO + PORTION + ATE

9 Portarlington.

P + OR + TAR + LING + TON

14 nascent.

N + ASCENT

16 farce.

FARCE

18 Kerry.

KERRY

20 eat.

ETA [anagram]

21 deb.

DEB [IT] deletion

24 sarcasm.

A + RC + MASS [anagram]

26 neutral.

NEUTRAL

27 mallet.

L + METAL [anagram]

28 astern.

[S] ENAT [O] RS deletion anagram

32 capo.

O + CAP [anagram]

33 abet.

ABET

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1 Professional lightweight performance (9)
9 The engineer didn't go seafaring overland (6)
10 Mother, insanity holds it all together (8)
11 On the face of it, a calf with me (6)
12 Trap her underneath (6)
14 Stories after tea to seal it up (4)
15 Fish 'n' chips (1-3-1)
16 Mother kneels before the metal boxes to pray at daybeak (6)
18 Not on strike, way-out (7)
21 Perceived to have lost four beforehand (7)
24 Swiss Italian capital will put a shine on your plate (6)
26 Is X around here in the big picture? (5)
30 Not written or a fifty (4)
31 You'll hear it from Bray Head (6)
32 Freak mutt is not available (6)
33 It's fifty fifty to win a grand around here (8)
34 Approved to be alright before a dye (6)
35 Gee, mother beams back and forth before these fishes (5,4)

DOWN

2 About father and the Queen in the textbook (6)
3 Ghi for a peaceful Indian (6)
4 Back on board (6)
5 Just a month in London (7)
6 Has spoken in a sheepish way in Malaya (6)
7 Notwithstanding I get up, sounds ridiculous (8)
8 Murder the young bull around this village here (9)
11 I am back in the fur, for the big bone (5)
13 Artistic support or agreement with fifty (4)
17 Mother sings and hums a lullaby in the West (9)
19 Stamp of approval covers these after last month (5-3)
20 Warn later (5)
22 Fence off the end of the Indian tent (4)
23 Led to uncertainty by the Imam (7)
25 Molly was one in Dublin (6)
27 Manholes have none for peace (6)
28 Balance precariously with a tree on the end (6)
29 I heard y'all come around after the state, to the tribal city here (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 programme.
PRO + GRAMME
9 safari.
S [E] AFARI [NG] deletion
10 mainstay.
MA SANITY [anagram]
11 facial.
A CALF I [anagram]
12 nether.
NET HER
14 ales.
[T] ALES deletion
15 I-and-I.
One-and-one I-AND-I
16 matins.
MA TINS
18 offbeat.
OFF BEAT
21 precede.
PERCE [IV] ED deletion anagram
24 chrome.
CH ROME
26 inset.
IS TEN [anagram]
30 oral.
OR A L
31 heehaw.
HEE HAW
32 mutant.
MUTT NA [anagram]
33 Milltown.
M L L TO WIN [anagram]
34 okayed.
OK A DYE [anagram]
35 gamma rays.
G AM MA RAYS

DOWN
2 reader.
RE AD ER
3 Gandhi.
G AND HI
4 astern.
ASTERN
5 Mayfair.
MAY FAIR
6 Bahasa.
BA HAS A [insertion]
7 satirize.
SAT I RISE[phononym]
8 Killester.
KILL STEER[anagram]
11 femur.
F + EM + UR
13 ease.
EASE[L] or [L]EASE
17 Roscommon.
MOM CROONS [anagram]
19 first-day.
FIRST DAY
20 alert.
LATER [anagram]
22 épée.
[T] EPEE
23 dilemma.
LED IMAM [anagram]
25 monger.
MONGER
27 shalom.
MA [N] HOL [E] S deletion anagram
28 teeter.
TEETER
29 Galway.
GA + YAWL [anagram]

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SunWeb19 by Athos

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ACROSS
1 Put the flowers underground in London (10)
6 Thanks for the rustling in Ulster, of old (4)
10 Up there in 6 across a clumsy favourite (5)
11 Change oar and we'll moor here (9)
12 River rodent, we art twice around (5,3)
13 Praise from ten to fifty back East (5)
15 Fifty-one pig calls about to keep one dry (7)
17 I was not a little upset about work, in a manner of speaking (7)
19 Splash out in these pools, whether you've won them or not (7)
21 The crazy liar is in charge on board (7)
22 Once had fifty inside, that is before he left home (5)
24 His own girl, by the Scots reasoning (8)
27 Its about napkins when running before the wind (9)
28 Inverse of a low dove's lovesong from the Orient, I hear (5)
29 You should eat this fruit when you meet the lady (4)
30 Beat it a hundred times on a road back from Bertie's place (10)

DOWN
1 Neither an A or a C rig on board (4)
2 Protected worker above everyone Edward (9)
3 No finish, he's on the dry after mother in the Orient (5)
4 This African War brought sad images from a far bin (7)
5 The performance, make it real about a hundred (7)
7 Fat sailor in retrospect (5)
8 Fifty eyes and fifty ends, to no avail (10)
9 Zorba gave his twelfth letter back with force, after an instant (8)
14 Flattened by her rule about in the fish (10)
16 I've seen your ilk Kenneth in the Southeast (8)
18 Afraid, if retired (9)
20 Speaks about hunting (7)
21 An arm and a leg without the French, is what this is (7)
23 501 nothing in it fool (5)
25 A brute encountered on swift journeys (5)
26 Ancient childminder in the West Indies (4)


Full Solution
ACROSS
1 Bloomsbury.
BLOOMS + BURY
6 Tain.
TA + IN
10 inept.
IN + PET [anagram]
11 anchorage.
CHANGE + OAR [anagram]
12 water rat.
WE +ART+ ART [anagram]
13 extol.
E + X + TO + L
15 oilskin.
LI+ OINKS [anagram]
17 litotes.
SET + TOIL [anagram]
19 puddles.
PUDDLES
21 admiral.
MAD + LIAR [anagram]
22 exile.
EX + I + L + E
24 analysis.
AIN + LASSY [anagram]
27 spinnaker.
RE + NAPKINS [anagram]
28 haiku.
HIGH COO sounds like HAIKU
29 date.
DATE
30 Drumcondra.
DRUM + C + ON + DR + A

DOWN
1 brig.
B + RIG
2 overalled.
OVER ALL ED
3 matte.
MA + TT + E
4 Biafran.
A FAR BIN [anagram]
5 recital.
IT + REAL + C [anagram]
7 abaft.
FAT + AB [anagram]
8 needlessly.
L + EYES + L + ENDS [anagram]
9 momentum.
MOMENT + MU[back]
14 compressed.
COD + EMPRESS [anagram]
16 Kilkenny.
K [ILK] ENNY
18 terrified.
IF + RETIRED [anagram]
20 stalker.
TALKS + RE
21 anagram.
AN + ARM +A + [LE]G [anagram]
23 idiot.
I [ DI + O ] T
25 yahoo.
YAHOO [ from Gulliver's Travels by J. Swift]
26 Cuba.
CUBA

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1 If many had a bad name (6)
4 Neither parent saw the wider picture (8)
9 Jump into another year (6)
10 Predatory female? (3-5)
12 Below a grand in the States (5)
13 Get out of the way to walk around these three rocks (9)
15 Almost ask you where to find bloomers in London (3)
16 Take a single lice to the dance here (5)
17 I won, its amell (6)
22 Welfare statesman across the water, he wont drink by the Cork river (6)
24 Edward was axed from the episode and found his balance (5)
27 Long one back out of the wind (3)
28 Exaggerate where the ruler is (9)
31 The shady character is back in the red (5)
32 The holy man is on a flight path to the top floor (8)
33 This seed sounds like it going on, and on (6)
34 A sainted k before Easter (4,4)
35 Hundreds North in the ale, not straight (6)

DOWN
1 To such an extent that this is a grand cushion (8)
2 Conifers will find the evidence (8)
3 Address in short from these swinging times (9)
5 'e nearly kept up with this native in the US (5)
6 The Greek, 'e paid 'omage, down to the last letter (5)
7 A short back and sides around the North, for some spirit in the glens (6)
8 Sounds like we're all eyes together (6)
11 No breaker afloat, too (2,4)
14 Like 6 down, around a Greek joint (3)
18 Oh I am allowed, of course (6)
19 Replace exceptional pip (9)
20 A perpetual journey there in Dublin, by the Great South Wall (8)
21 He may make you the start of 20 down (8)
23 The rodent may knock twice more (3)
25 So up we ate in Russia (6)
26 Roundabout in the House here, and way off track (6)
29 Southern team to make fast (5)
30 You wont cut butter with this saw (5)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 infamy.
IF + MANY [anagram]
4 panorama.
PA + NOR + A MA
9 spring.
SPRING
10 man-eater.
MAN-EATER
12 minus.
M + IN + US
13 Stepaside.
STEP + ASIDE [suburb of Dublin]
15 Kew.
[AS]K YOU = KEW
16 ceili.
I + LICE [anagram]
17 egoist.
EGO + IST [first], all about me
22 Attlee.
A + TT + LEE
24 poise.
EPISO[DE] anagram
27 lee.
LEE
28 overstate.
OVER + STATE
31 rogue.
ROUGE [anagram]
32 stairway.
ST + AIRWAY
33 cereal.
CEREAL sounds like serial
34 Holy Week.
HOLY + WEE + K
35 bender.
BE + N + D + ER
DOWN
1 insomuch.
M + CUSHION [anagram]
2 forensic.
CONIFERS [anagram]
3 miniskirt.
MINISKIRT
5 apace.
APAC [H] E deletion
6 omega.
OMAGE [anagram] 24th, and last letter of Greel alphabet
7 Antrim.
A + N + TRIM
8 agreed.
AGREED = ALL AYES[all in favour say AYE]
11 as well.
A + S WELL
14 phi.
HIP [anagram] 21st letter of Greek alphabet
18 omelet.
O + ME + LET
19 supersede.
SUPER SEED [anagram]
20 Ringsend.
RINGS END
21 jeweller.
JEWELLER
23 tat.
[RAT] TAT [TAT]
25 borsch.
BORSCH
26 derail.
D + [ER] + AIL
29 screw.
S + CREW
30 adage.
ADAGE

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SunWeb17 by Athos

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1 Its very moving to take a flight (9)
9 Is Graham up north (6)
10 I see a list after the piggery, in a manner of speaking (9)
11 Did he slip back in the long one, to cover the crown (6)
12 Ran out 150 in Ulster, by night (9)
13 For all it's like a bloomer (6)
17 One of these would make you wonder, once (3)
19 This terminal has a feline brick carrier to the east (7)
20 No ten could fly in England but not in part here (3-4)
21 This water is ever about in verse (3)
23 55 North about 3 e's inside (6)
27 It is that I can put a value on it (9)
28 Poke at the French, steady on (6)
29 It's crazy to take it out of the oven during the interval (4-5)
30 The Scotsman is around sir, with prejudice (6)
31 They'd dare to remove the water (9)

DOWN
2 No drink for us back on the Northside (6)
3 Recede about fifty by erosion (6)
4 Become imbued around south after the seaman (6)
5 Are the Magi back in the fold here (7)
6 Interpret the art back up north on the roof (9)
7 Spoil more Albert with streaks and veins (9)
8 Feel fifty fish defore it goes off (5,4)
14 Roy came around after the saints had a hundred in one, in a supportive role (9)
15 Natter on cue by making this (9)
16 Sounds like four suits reclaimed the mortgage (9)
17 With a German one in this place (3)
18 Towards the east on foot (3)
22 Leave two poles to subjugate (7)
24 This fifty sounds a bit iffy as it divides the city (6)
25 This market sounds very unconventional (6)
26 Fifty one in small change for the customer (6)

Full Solution
ACROSS
1 escalator.
ESCALATOR
9 Armagh.
GRAHAM [anagram]
10 stylistic.
STY + LIST + I + C
11 enamel.
E + NAM + EL
12 nocturnal.
RAN + OUT + CL + N [anagram]
13 floral.
FOR + ALL [floral]
17 hit.
HIT
19 cathode.
CAT + HOD + E
20 out-half.
No. 10 position in rugby team, fly-half or OUT [not in] + HALF [part]
21 ree.
E'ER
23 eleven.
E + E + E + LV + N [anagram]
27 estimable.
EST [it is] + I'M ABLE
28 stable.
STAB + LE
29 half-baked.
HALF - BAKED
30 racism.
MAC +SIR [anagram]
31 dehydrate.
THEY'D + DARE [anagram]

DOWN
2 Sutton.
TT + US + ON [anagram]
3 ablate.
ABATE + L [ anagram]
4 absorb.
AB + S + ORB
5 origami.
MAGI + ROI [anagram]
6 translate.
ART + N + SLATE [anargam]
7 marmoreal.
MAR + MORE + AL
8 shelf life.
FEEL + L + FISH [anagram]
14 accessory.
A [C]CE + SS + ORY
15 utterance.
NATTER + CUE [anagram]
16 foreclose.
FORE CLOSE
17 her.
HER + [EIN]
18 toe.
TO + E
22 enslave.
LEAVE + N + S
24 Liffey.
L + IFFEY
25 bazaar.
BAZAAR [souns like bizarre]
26 client.
C [ LI] ENT

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