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Art & Architecture No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Art & Architecture) cryptic puzzle: 35 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

  1. Lost slipper makes little waves (7)
  2. Rule for a member of the chapter (5)
  3. Five is thanks for the outlook (5)
  4. Cheerful engagements make news items (7)
  5. Framework to tie up a chicken (5)
  6. House match before the final (4)
  7. Burn fuel, making a drawing material (8)
  8. Bingo, losing its head, gives rose oil (4)
  9. Revise, going back with the current (4)
  10. Tourist art trade, primarily! (3)
  11. Fail to prune, and what a disaster (4)
  12. Like Andersen's duckling at the start (4)
  13. Parrot it badly for a likeness (8)
  14. It always has the last word in the hills (4)
  15. Time to relax? What a wind-up (5)
  16. Loud clothing put away for the naval vessel (7)
  17. About to be enclosed by the crowd (5)
  18. Why hesitate? Goodness, how delicious! (5)
  19. Marines mustered for a class (7)

Down

  1. Drop in again about a call (7)
  2. Curiously, mind stops more in this ironic style of architecture (13)
  3. Feast starts with lively uproar at university (4)
  4. Second silence — pipe down! (5)
  5. Timber from a sower, we hear (5)
  6. Explosive intro cooked up with sweet syrup (13)
  7. Adenoidal Alan's terribly upset (5)
  8. Time for ritual makes it hackneyed (5)
  9. Coatis running loose in a hollow moulding (6)
  10. Canny to have statue rebuilt (6)
  11. Meat off a broken shelf (5)
  12. Trailblazer, one admitted to the pier (7)
  13. Plug an unknown, getting swollen (5)
  14. All set with the cash (5)
  15. Times changed for the entries (5)
  16. Smallest particle from a disturbed moat (4)

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