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DIVERSIONS

CROSSWORD by David Tossman

Puzzle No 1160

Clues across

1. Exist with teams as well (7)

5. Drop someone in a canal (5)

8. Smear British leader in promotional statement (5)

11. A diary note for a boxing match? It should have happened sooner (5,4)

12. Seamen loving liquid are showing mercy (9)

13. She has a certain thing, new or damaged (5)

14. Final Soviet leader endures (5)

15. Insult a female breast (7)

16. A means of concealment used by agile characters in noisy surroundings (3,4)

19. Younger folk see Scotland collapsing (11)

21. A Wellington landlord is a leading character (7,6)

24. Animal eating at home and cleaning up (5)

26. Thus far from a reinterpretation of Yeats (2,3)

28. Internet meant collapse in show business (13)

32. Garden tools troubling me tomorrow and Sunday (5,6)

35. Emus rotting in dump, no longer allowed (5,2)

37. Hot flan cooked to a large extent (3,4)

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