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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
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May Crossword

May’s Cryptic Crossword or Quick Crossword in the same grid.

Grid 5
Clues Across
1 Vow that I’m coming back in a non-poetic state (7)
5 Covers the lawsuits (5)
8 Like a first-class backward continent (4)
9 Something or someone in opposition (8)
10 No, it takes one to dart back, followed by a friend, in the old way (13)
13 Real quality cannot, as the saying goes, be too good (4)
14 Made a bow with the same result (4)
17 Did they bring about freedom through termination? (13)
19 Legendary change from a foul bus (8)
20 Take to the air and discover the country (4)
21 Give me back a mixture of rye and polish it off (5)
22 Stupid, like being twice in the east? (7)
Clues Down
2 Rays or else beads (6)
3 Wind - and in a mere muddle (7)
4 Note the neck wear down the street (9)
5 Can hold the French in a spotless condition
6 Arranged for the wrong test to be directed (7)
7 Soaked the beam and hurried around (7)
11 Barns are unfashionable dwelling places (9)
12 The gnome moves the air back a bit (7)
13 The difficulty of beginning to translate a foreign coin (7)
15 No, I diet with a different book (7)
16 Inherited tendency to exert oneself? (6)
18 Filling with any fifty-one variations (5)

Quick Puzzle

Clues Across
1 Least quick (7)
5 Chooses (5)
8 Song (4)
9 Obvious (8)
10 Period of the French Revolution (5,2,6)
13 Fairy (4)
14 Thick paper (4)
17 Resolution (13)
19 Disinfectant (8)
20 Taverns (4)
21 Live as a paying guest (5)
22 Embraced (7)Clues Down2 Pantry (6)
3 Dispute (7)
4 Representation of abstractions by emblems (9)
5 Cost (5)
6 Encouraged (7)
7 Works of irony (7)
11 Peculiar to one profession (9)
12 Fundamental (7)
13 Came to an end (7)
15 Keeps (7)
16 Cause to rebound (6)
18 European river (5)And just in case you need them, here are the solutions.

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