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Toughie No. 9 — cryptic crossword

A 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. Regeneration is all about delivery (7)
  2. Taxi and bishop for an age produce the green stuff (7)
  3. Beer fit for a king, served up (5)
  4. Follow and arrest what the vicar wears (3,6)
  5. Rage of a distraught Regan (5)
  6. Predator leaving hospital for an island (4)
  7. Share out everything in extra time (5)
  8. Top sales, remarkably, from the twelve (8)
  9. Alarm from part of Japan, I concede (5)
  10. Naval recruiting party of old squeeze the crowd (5,4)
  11. Leaf through and pin down a brief description (9)
  12. Give in — unknown, idle and all at sea (5)
  13. Elastic stretched about nothing becomes communal (8)
  14. Farm rebuilt with energy for the border (5)
  15. Some Romantic language for the family (4)
  16. Elk sounds like a soft dessert (5)
  17. Firm with a thousand on the plains grumbles (9)
  18. Soothsayer, we're told, is a bore (5)
  19. About right — salty cocktail is clear (7)
  20. Drunken stupors produce Christmas greens (7)

Down

  1. Revolutionary dressing-down gets a lavish welcome (3,6)
  2. Gable in ruins produces a roll (5)
  3. Torso contorted on the perch (5)
  4. Shout about some alcohol laws (5)
  5. NCO full of energy is physical (9)
  6. Damn good time! (5)
  7. Britain and Norway at loggerheads, initially — how boring (5)
  8. A great egg, scrambled, gives the total (9)
  9. Greeks losing king become nerds (5)
  10. Slip up, right in the middle of hesitation! (3)
  11. New single currency record unknown in the study of nerves (9)
  12. Young animal held in the incubator (3)
  13. Down-to-earth session in the lab (9)
  14. Sally, regularly, is crafty (3)
  15. Good, strange bends in the road reveal divine ladies (9)
  16. Bitter about clubs? Search everywhere! (5)
  17. Reasons losing the upper class become examples (5)
  18. Introduce, dropping society, to become inactive (5)
  19. Balms made up for spring's new arrivals (5)
  20. Clerk brought up in an obscure life (5)
  21. Troubled aide of the upper class — farewell! (5)
  22. River rising? Cover up! (3)

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