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Cryptic crossword #13, set by Sparticle

21 August 2019

Quick Crossword #13

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Across

1 Larger Reiki club overturned and vacuous cognoscenti expelled (7)

5 Succumb rapidly to reveal inner darkness (5)

8 Incorrectly opening a great gulf between X and Y? (10,3)

9 Indicating more than one unbreakable piece of glass (5)

10 Vehicle used to promote a movie (7)

12 Admen I excite with middling value (6)

13 Emphasise mental strain (6)

16 In the years after Christ’s birth, the Lord God was a monster (7)

18 Requires detective sergeant to refer to one’s birth name first (5)

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