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Toughie No. 47 — 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. Exploit a bout of graduate recruitment (4,5)
  2. Network glimpsed on the morning ride (4)
  3. Number of children (5)
  4. Did the crawl with one religious teacher (5)
  5. Function of the family is the official view (5,4)
  6. Text Inc wound up, no longer with us (7)
  7. Rescue in chaos is not safe (8)
  8. Concerning the preliminary race, warm up (6)
  9. Trainer I sacked, unknown on the tour schedule (9)
  10. What's cut! (5)
  11. Five hundred at an ice arena, one for the road (5)
  12. Huge darts thrown wildly by the girls of the family (9)
  13. Overshadows the little men of folklore (6)
  14. Nearly overlook a worker in the dark (8)
  15. Thanks for the jazz phrase, son — these are the charges (7)
  16. Gut air arranged for one street strummer (9)
  17. I do it badly! (5)
  18. Some of the loot terrifies a riverbank dweller (5)
  19. Can the unknown be so small? (4)
  20. Georgie messed about in America, shocking! (9)

Down

  1. I defy mist, wildly at sea (9)
  2. False, in a way, turns the pages (5)
  3. Wet weather, a stop, and a promise to accept later (4,5)
  4. Stimulant for a deck worker gives the advantage (5,4)
  5. Scandal turning up in part of Trident (4)
  6. Ravine spotted in the mogul chase (5)
  7. Retire in confusion, having dined, and repeat (9)
  8. Daughter with a raised mark lived (5)
  9. Move about in prison (4)
  10. Signal heard from long ago in Scotland (4)
  11. One cross with energy gets the chop (3)
  12. I am into it, somehow — not the real thing (9)
  13. Your gents rebuilt inside for a kid (9)
  14. Choosing badly to take in a beginner for education (9)
  15. Loathes the ties knotted inside, and wavers (9)
  16. One of ten you can count on (5)
  17. Beam admitting a teetotaller is irritable (5)
  18. Raft adrift — a US student society (4)
  19. Address for a king — a knight with energy (4)
  20. Doubts start to intrude from suspicion (3)
  21. Wrecked main with oxygen gives a sort of acid (5)
  22. Dismiss with passion (4)

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