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HARDER CLUES

CLUES ACROSS:

1. The pieces that may be taken on board (8)

7. How one pinched a sort of wrap (5)

8. At this place one turns up for appointment (7)

9. If archaic, I get married and liven things up (7)

10. A musician's work that signified nothing to the Manx cat (4)

12. Were PM to change nothing, he could still give one the authority (7)

14. Perhaps men fret about how it will work (7)

17. One wouldn't know him from the first gardener, they say (4)

18. Dead meat served with corn and air like this (7)…

CLUES DOWN

1. Sort of 14 Down to be found in vulgar fractions? (6)
2. He is given the will to carry it out (8)

3. How to peel the derm (4)

4. How one may take on staff, or an enemy (6)

5. Fish given a tail at end of movement (4)

6. At first nautically reeve round the surface layer (6)

7. Spotted a way to paint it (7)

11. The exact price change to half base (7)

13. Blow after blow, it shows the direction of the breeze (8)

14. It is something to be taken into consideration by an agent (6)

15. Doctor found surrounded by fish in this geographical region (6)

16. The forenoon finishes and one makes them in reparation (6)..

SIMPLER CLUES

1. Queens, bishops and the like (8)

7. Was a robber (5)

8. An encounter (7)

9. Breathe life into (7)

10. Numbered musical work (4)

12. Authorise (7)

14. To work (as yeast) (7)

17. Robert and James, architects (4)

18. Dead putrefying body as food (7)…

CLUES DOWN

1.   Vulgar  (6)

2.   He carries out terms of will                          (8)

3.   Pelt (4)

4.   Enter into contest (6)

5.   Tail section of musical movement (4)

6.   Thin, decorative layer (6)

7.   To paint in spots (7)

11. Exact, accurate (7)

13. Airfield wind indicator (8)

14. One transacting business for others  (6)

15. Arctic plain (6)

16. Improves, corrects (6)…

SOLUTION:

CLUES ACROSS 1. Chessmen 7. Stole 8. Meeting 9. Animate 10. Opus 12. Empower 14. Ferment 17. Adam 18. Carrion…

CLUES DOWN 1. Common 2. Executor 3. Skin 4. Engage 5. Coda 6. Veneer 7. Stipple 11. Precise 13. Windsock 14. Factor 15. Tundra 16. Amends…

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