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Toughie No. 38 — cryptic crossword

A 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. Toy spun at Hanukkah when daughter relied badly (7)
  2. Primarily a contraction reducing overlong names you mention! (7)
  3. Melodies about a route make passages for breath (7)
  4. Scent grass to get a water rodent (7)
  5. Approve some golden Dorset butter (7)
  6. Trooped out and about to sink (7)
  7. Sharp — one for the detectives (4)
  8. Chiefly a beefy stomach! (3)
  9. One spectre at large? That is common knowledge (4,6)
  10. Canadian tree, ample when developed (5)
  11. Layer by the church, therefore (5)
  12. Castle Lane redeveloped gives a fresh start (5,5)
  13. Your, once bound up with youth (3)
  14. Works, or clears off (4)
  15. Particle in any study of the body (7)
  16. Troubled, he sires a woman in line for the money (7)
  17. Feed, with a shift in hours (7)
  18. Student letting up on renting (7)
  19. Tether reworked with love, in addition (7)
  20. Doubt the one being questioned (7)

Down

  1. Zap media, sadly, to get a calming drug (8)
  2. Sin? Not in this corner, Reverend! (3)
  3. Hear radio broadcast about a stomach complaint (9)
  4. Those tuning in when Leinster's all over the place (9)
  5. Own up when maid is upset before time (5)
  6. One up early to revolt with Republican (5)
  7. Bottle in the middle is where it all gets decided (5,6)
  8. Approach of London police with builder's tray (6)
  9. Underworld delight makes for annoyance (11)
  10. Fruit picked up to trim (4)
  11. Jettison what runs beside the road (5)
  12. Breakfast fare for graduate to study (5)
  13. Beach treasures as the main bombards (9)
  14. Substances from weird alchemic society (9)
  15. For fear that the minimum drops one (4)
  16. Agreement in the crew shows vision (8)
  17. Paper turned over a trap for the jewel (6)
  18. Rust, say, packed in box I delivered (5)
  19. Cry of triumph from a lout (5)
  20. Sweet, losing head over diamonds (3)

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