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Cryptic Crossword #5

Set by Sparticle

24 April 2019

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ACROSS

1 Sheer fitting with zip is OK? (8, 4)

7, 8 Oat nectar bee turned into pigment (4)

8 See 7 across (8)

9 Wild animals incubate alien egg, say (6)

10 Against crossing without a trace (6)

11 Not finishing off a vitamin shake (3)

12 Nanoscale electrical engineering installed in Troy, New York (5)

14 Heedless of the odds, pens a scary article (5)

16 Prompt treatment to suspend onset of rabies (3)

18 After top surgery, driver left covered in crusted wounds (6)

20 In Uppsala, Rydberg got…

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