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Unpublished Beelzebub 14

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Across

    1  American who’s dismissive, namely, of imperfection (8)

  12  Government grants given to old poet and specialist carpenter (7-5)

  13  Crafty escape, heading off round Spain? Follow (4)

  14  Twisting smoke, say – a rocket? (5)

  15  Some Alaskans feed fish to weak horse (7)

  16  German to run telecommunications system (5)

  19  Happened to consume chicken at what time in the past? (6)

  20  Bishop, getting vexed about religious figure, offered resistance (8)

  22  Fifth boy put on board (4)

  23  A delightful thing to be recalled in family history (4)

  24  Authority supplying property details to cricket ground (8)

  26  Group of houses roughly cut down by American (6)

  29  Bile actually is constraining of part of the intestines (5)

  31  Source of bad smell: fish found around ordinary lake (7)

  33  Humour received in silence is immediately forgotten (5)

  34  Vocal items in arrangement omitting a frenzied cry (4)

  35  American landlady willingly accommodating a student, someone to stay with (6-6)

  36  Stupid Frenchman in France not now the ultimate in foolishness? (8)

 

Down

    2  Transport system blighted by racial byelaw (5,7)

    3  East European money secured by company that’s kept up using oil (5)

    4  Australian actor once sly, having couple of names (5)

    5  No longer disregarded, on account of having gun (6)

    6  African money insufficient for large dam? (4)

    7  Our team runs into a situation, so to speak (2,2,4)

    8  Rustic game about to be subsumed in local form of marbles (7)

    9  Seabird is declining, not initially soaring (4)

  10  Ice collapsed after quake revealing minor faults (12)

  11  Lot of stars? Energy, and more energy, burning up internally (8)

  17  Mathematical quantity in Classics badly misdirected (8)

  18  Endlessly explaining away a source of disease (8)

  21  Sun’s impact strangling Australian grass (7)

  25  Crown delivering upturn in medical support (6)

  27  Nerve endings in legs connect the whole limb initially (5)

  28  What manager should do about United’s later course? (5)

  30  Dead story given up, yielding nothing? Not any more (4)

  32  Bird in New Zealand Commonwealth leader repeatedly brought up (4)

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