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January 2022 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

  • 1 Poetry lover selects excerpt (5)
  • 4 Up there and off it! (4)
  • 8 Laugh at idiot overshadowing a politician (7)
  • 9 Jump over burial chamber (5)
  • 10 Brown gecko skin to a T (5)
  • 11 Ornamental flower bed in one of the Orkney islands (7)
  • 13 Attacks because army is disembowelled by savage leader (6)
  • 15 More straightforward if he ultimately gets a rise by mistake (6)
  • 17 Motown rotted horribly around me (7)
  • 20 Bring back not a single unknown element (5)
  • 22 City has attracted German agreement to supply wine (5)
  • 23 Diamond rush mob fell into chaos (7)
  • 24 Court shrugging off fool's volume (4)
  • 25 From bottom to top, springs fill up (5)

Down

  • 1 Greetings to the head manservant (5)
  • 2 Roman retinue's extraordinary salary (12)
  • 3 Saving every top criminal to confirm happy endings (7)
  • 4 Quasimodo had one intuition (5)
  • 5 Information covers four, it's presumed (5)
  • 6 Funny noble's quite a cuckoo (12)
  • 7 One who persists in hanging around? (6)
  • 12 Need to pay for love while on vacation (3)
  • 13 Partly doffed or angled hat (6)
  • 14 Polish finish for slide (3)
  • 16 Concerned one with ten debts (7)
  • 18 Animal is fine when placed with a Greek character (5)
  • 19 Age of this group is reviewed there (5)
  • 21 Secretly reckon a salary's on the nose (5)

Posted in puzzles on Jan 01, 2022