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Harry Potter No. 5 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Harry Potter) toughie puzzle: 42 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. Rendered legless (9)
  2. Some farm utensils are dumb (4)
  3. Victory with batting (3)
  4. Destroyer held by lavish Ivan (5)
  5. Cactus extract: spirit at home with ecstasy (9)
  6. Brown, drinking vermouth, is a heavyweight (5)
  7. Orange squash with petrol — drink served in the Great Hall (7,5)
  8. Hips undulating, leis around, initially! (4)
  9. Stood for a salesman who took offence (11)
  10. Hard to leave the helm for a tree (3)
  11. Haggard novel female (3)
  12. Girl one gave up the Devil for (11)
  13. Headless Cowes is in the red (4)
  14. Frame of small country house where Dobby lies (5,7)
  15. Room for son to manage (5)
  16. Hot cartel cooked up a pudding (9)
  17. Market fall as plums go off (5)
  18. Sesame recalled when drunk (3)
  19. Peak about to go? Take a break (4)
  20. Take down mad tinsel, tangled (9)

Down

  1. Mountain crossing harbours travel papers (9)
  2. A team with distinction is a given (5)
  3. Blame Henry, stuck in a tank (5)
  4. Ron came round to this with Hermione! (7)
  5. Interrupt stupid rambling about the Right (7)
  6. Spies lie, with university as background (6)
  7. Posh fool is one (4)
  8. Still level (4)
  9. Observe and hound a regulator (8)
  10. Maritime centre, reportedly (5)
  11. Remaining socialists (4)
  12. Not many, by the sound of it — what a relief! (4)
  13. Paint finish prompts misery (8)
  14. Hogwarts lake-dwellers, not quite mere folk (9)
  15. Quidditch referee's hard stuff (5)
  16. Cut when allowed in the act (7)
  17. Ambridge family curves round her (7)
  18. Sprite sparkling with wit (6)
  19. Al set up a magnetic unit (5)
  20. Dad, ultimately, is in part grown-up (5)
  21. Oscar dropping love for Harry's famous mark (4)
  22. At first, offer a thoroughbred some! (4)

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