March 2017


Crossword for March by Ian Miles Clues marked * (&/or their solutions) carry a seasonal thematic reference


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Across 1* Organists too are 'happily coupled' for this ... (7,5)


8 ... Manual workers indeed play it and groan sad- ly (5)


9 Primes up a penurious state (9)


11 Series of balls assessed as hyped (9) 12 Communication over one meal (1-4) 13 Queen absorbing Roman numerals offers a tonic (6)


15 Delete function of recessional (5,3) 18* Brassy types weren't entirely absent-minded (8) 21 Take a rest after end of service, and resume chocolate? (6)


24 Dug out initially a crumbly cheese? (Not very!) (5)


26 Snap missile, yet spoil picture (5-4) 27 Former tadpole performing goofy gurn (5,4) 28 Practise on the track (5) 29* Played dead slow, was real fun prior to this month (7,5)


Down 1* Bombastic manner of Richard and compiler (9) 2 I'd earn one, roughly, per day in Gospel times (7) 3 Where Vladimir's somehow collecting info? (6) 4 Turn round for instance, and sink (2,5) 5 Lacking respect around Monmouthshire (7) 6 Huge land at heart of machinations (5) 7* Screen march where officer takes extra shot... (7,5)


10* ... 'No uniforms welcome here?' What a blast! (12)


14* Foremost constellation in memory (3) 15 Manages to stop food rotting (3) 16 Modestly produces such a poem (3) 17 Alt. practitioner adjourned to teashop (9) 19 Decoration to reach along broken leg (7) 20 I'm opera mad and shop in these exclusively (7) 22 One who takes home a redtop perhaps (7) 23 Traditionally one makes a fair impact (6) 25 Partly sulphurous red rock (5)


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