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2535: Green light! Cross!

issue 15 January 2022

In this pangrammatical puzzle, the unclued lights are of a kind near 21A. Ignore all accents.

 

Across

7 Fresh out of Pinewood (3)

11 Prisoner’s popular winning move (6)

13 Sympathy strike at the docks? (7)

15 All the monks in class (5)

17 Some reach a téléphérique in Alpine ski resort (6)

18 A harp playing for Restoration playwright Behn (5)

21 Old German graduate going round Qawra’s isle (5)

22 Rice dish with bit of thyme dropped in on one’s knee (7)

27 New investment in gold bonds is for older women (7)

29 Little girl encountered in rubber boots (5)

30 Works Scott composed out East (6)

32 Almost imperceptibly moves the lips (5)

34 Novelist on the shelf? (6)

36 Attendant meets men in stately home (5)

37 Antelope put on a cross (5)

38 Former MP, Sir Gerald, in pub in African port, reflecting (7)

40 Some tannoy with parts regularly omitted (3)

41 Goose tongue or alpine Santa sorted (11, two words)

 

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