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1 and 4 It may keep you from getting involved with something personal. (5,9)
Frank W. LewisACROSS
1 and 4 It may keep you from getting involved with something personal. (5,9)
9 In Castro, you’ll find one who often says, “I don’t believe it! (7)
10 A hassle in the plant? (7)
11 A cad cant! (4)
12 What’s the point to sherry, for example, for a bunch of porkers! (5)
13 and 26 Does one of the teams sort of sway with it, looking at it from one direction? (4-4)
16 This and son, and a mountain in Alaska, good for sand, which is bad! (7)
17 To us it might be a bridge, but to the Brit it’s a wrench. (7)
19 It may be what you give the baby, with a sort of loaf around a mixed drink. (7)
22 Really mad, as they say–but you can’t put a foot down when doing it. (7)
24 and 25 Slews with this–but you possibly don’t eat them. (4-5)
26 See 13
29 A direction to what belongs to you and me–or his, sort of? It’s a way to keep you going! (7)
30 Rebuilt a drum, i.e.–and often made a pretty picture. (7)
31 Sure! A sort of dry tea will make it! But not today! (9)
32 The Captain of the Pinafore never did, as you might testify! (5)
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1 and 24 The dreams you have of soaring high? (7,2,5)
2 This, men, on a dead man’s chest makes a five-spot surround three in the yard, sort of. (7)
3 Try not to be seen with bare skin showing! (4)
4 Everything? Nothing! Hitched, as will be permitted. (7)
5 A gofer goes on them–and makes a mistake about it. (7)
6 How you might name things around a splash of painting. (4)
7 Little Virginia is enveloped in rising noise–but it’s a way of ducking! (7)
8 Possibly a belt at the place where you eat. (5)
14 A little extra, which is good in Paris to you and me. (5)
15 Gripes a bit, owing to a bad scrap. (5)
18 A rare sort around the main point, right! But one is keeping records. (9)
20 Saves legal things, and sticks on a table that sounds like water. (7)
21 Where you are sleeping around what’s left of the fire? No wonder you’re embarrassed! (7)
22 Oh, lady, I might be all mixed-up, but this is not the time to work! (7)
23 I lead those wise men in one direction, as you can guess. (7)
24 See 1
27 Gain a point with rosé, for example. (4)
28 They say you beat them in an argument! (4)
Frank W. Lewis