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Music No. 2 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Music) toughie puzzle: 40 clues on a 15×15 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. Cheat with second instrument (5)
  2. Leader gets cordon cut, sadly (9)
  3. Drop yen and be watchful (5)
  4. Fool taking in certain promises (7)
  5. Second in thirty, but dry (7)
  6. Fish by the river — one on ice (6)
  7. One studied, but overlooked (6)
  8. Sign the openings of "I never in truth intended a lie" (7)
  9. Harmony over a charged particle makes the squeeze-box (9)
  10. What the pianist tickles, and where the don hides (5)
  11. Drama over a dry lake bed (5)
  12. Fools squeal when sizing up (9)
  13. Golding sorted out digs (7)
  14. Prim spy, sir, is in a muddle (6)
  15. Not one to be observed! (6)
  16. Love in the list makes an early riser (7)
  17. Captivate with cooked leavens (7)
  18. Biblical queen, by the sound of it, is a fragrant compound (5)
  19. Spy with a curl arranged, of the tiniest particles (9)
  20. Stops the stalks (5)

Down

  1. Kitchen tool Paul sat on, unfortunately (7)
  2. Muscles seen in some crab shells (3)
  3. Put back into service on the subject of employment (5)
  4. A park redeveloped for the anorak (5)
  5. Roughly a year in the street produces a swelling (4)
  6. Rebuilt stern unit yields what the body needs (9)
  7. I lit suite after arranging the services (9)
  8. Sworn statements moisten ties dreadfully (11)
  9. Roy, a friend, in the grand manner (7)
  10. Late, absolutely (4)
  11. Stone and bread make music for jiving (4,3,4)
  12. Articles I redrafted are down to earth (9)
  13. Opening for fashionable prophet, a learner (9)
  14. Cheek raised and grim — one on a holy journey (7)
  15. Lively cape produces good cheer (7)
  16. Writes and encloses (4)
  17. Pauses on topless peaks (5)
  18. Where the sea is let in, roughly! (5)
  19. Prophet raised in the trees (4)
  20. Exist in a reasonable dwelling (3)

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