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JUMBO CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1

ACROSS

1. Light colour? No: very dark indeed! (4-5)

5. Acat’s islight where wind is concerned (3)

7. From which one may get the flavour of money-making (4)

8. With food, wire can be fashioned into alog (8)

10. It may be hardened by its being softened (8)

11. To start with, writer must begin with nothing (4)

13. No bright person would get ruffed like this (6)

13. Junior scout holds the lady, dear little chap! (6)

18. Put to sea for Genoa, for example (4)

19. It made acomeback in the not-long-ago, having little to say (8)

22. Backs

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