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Crossword No. 1760

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20 February 2026

by the Rt Revd David Thomson

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Across

1 Employee taking long time in conversation intended for admin (10)

6 Note 15 20 (4)

9 Strain in relations set in on moving (7)

10 Bishop with dishevelled attire provides clergy headgear (7)

12 Maggot I brought to monk’s room beginning to injure Florentine artist (10)

13 Age showing in the racer (3)

15 Work and make out nearly all the truth (6)

16 Ant and Dec broadcast including old end to strange story (8)

18 The writer’s correspondence with late queen is a fraud (8)

20 Fountain pen perhaps sounds more correct (6)

23 Flog pretentious old items in vestry? (3)

24 Auntie has a questionable help to end life (10)

26 Red Tory found round the edges (7)

27 Banker in Venezuela seen on Wimbledon Common? (7)

28 15 20 half-hearted (only half) (4)

29 Heather planted in Melton upside down at first for Waterloo hero (10)

 

Down

1 Dull 15 20 (4)

2 Corporals, say, confused nonconformist (not re-ordered if torn) (7)

3 Innocence heard when Security picked up over minor point (13)

4 Troops pass with highest mark in US for threatening danger (6)

5 Swindling toff with conspicuous jewellery (8)

7 Start cycling with environmentally friendly style (3,4)

8 Changed Alaska bore southern marsupials (5,5)

11 Control automobile people starting again with new body (13)

14 Displaying selfishness when socialite plays with leader of Godsquad (10)

17 Decision of nurse and church when admitting most of soccer team (8)

19 Father leads deception creating Irish saint (7)

21 Disconnect in parish excursion? (4,3)

22 Georgia ground providing fuel for heating (3,3)

25 15 20 can (4)

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