Salmon's Cryptic no.11
A number of answers are of a kind, either 9 or its opposite.
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ACROSS
..1...Cinct organ manufactured in Lancashire town. (10) ..7...Capital absorbs 9 and the last underground stem. (7) ..8...Smooths the odds. (4) 10...Mediocre love follows distress signal. (2,2) 11...Failed ordeal of one in French wind. (8) 13...9 who will assume cover. (4,2) 15...Champion! Darkness follows the king! (6) 17...Doctor O'Toole do opposite of 9. (6-2) 18...Back-tide may be cutting. (4) 21...Everybody in expression of surprise 9. (5) 22...Unfinished bergamot gets ban. (7) 23...Catty Incas get their grammar wrong. (10) |
DOWN
..1...Spanish opposite of 9 with soda I drunk. (5) ..2...Admirable love in the saddle. (4) ..3...I live by retrograde tune in the peninsula. (6) ..4...Horse swallowed entire troubled 9. (8) ..5...9 in GPO climbing 9 (7) ..6...Joint guard to record the Minutes. (10) ..9...Tuna sat, oil tested for kind of 5. (10) 12...Hall soon rumpled the twill lining. (8) 14...Stone pines are all Rosa managed. (7) 16...One follows weary Welsh 9. (4,2) 19...Column meld of medic and Royal Institution. (5) 20...Article and conjunction join. (4) |