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Written by Martin Hills
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
There’s a lot of truth in it
The solutions to clues marked with an asterisk have something in common, as suggested by the title, but this aspect is not clued. Otherwise the usual rules apply: answers may be in English or French and all accents are ignored.
ACROSS
*1 Upset getting us sore (5,2,6)
*9 One against Swiss first (7)
10 Board takes directions that may be defended (7)
*11 Role I played (5)
12 Given authority to dismantle deep mower (9)
13 Liberal attitude to the French allocation (10)
15 Area held back by commerçants (4)
18 Settles French territory (4)
19 Ore reacted unexpectedly producing change of colour perhaps (10)
*22 Rise, movin’ erratically (9)
25 Charabanc I rode, carrying back kind of column (5)
26 Figure with no horse working (7)
27 French lovers seat man uncomfortably (7)
*28 Working under extremes (5,4,4)
DOWN
1 Permit pet first adornment (7)
2 I can return one friend to begin with (9)
*3 Mistake in church by foreign saint (8)
4 Trim trees unevenly in French quarter (9)
5 Legal halt for dreadful poets (5)
6 Refreshes several directions beyond river (6)
7 Remains of fire kept in three months (5)
8 French sell in eleven dreary market-places (6)
14 Exaggerate the position of US federal government (9)
*16 Die for this! (9)
*17 They say it once carried bread (or its makings) (8)
18 Pitmen disclose French spice (6)
20 Former copper starts seeking early sightseers to provide explanations (7)
21 Alarm of one right in battle (6)
23 French refuse church for the time being (5)
24 Cat needs more quiet to jump (5)
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