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Tracks
No 1642
Lay tracks
to enable
the train to
travel from
village A to
village B.
The numbers
indicate
how many
sections of
rail go in
each row
and column.
There are
only straight
rails and
curved rails.
The track
cannot
cross itself.
Solution
on Monday
10 Pursuit of wild game (7)
11 Imaginary seasonal rabbit (6,5)
12 Egyptian seaport (4)
17 Lycanthrope (8)
19 Very stubborn (9)
22 Liable to make mistakes (8)
25 Favourable opinion (8)
26 Life of pleasure and luxury (5,4)
27 Representing the most perfect
example (14)
28 Theatre poster (8)
31 Prevent from functioning normally
(12)
33 Explosively spitting (11)
36 In fine condition (2,4,5)
37 Sodium bicarbonate (6,4)
41 Period when a person is young and
inexperienced (5,4)
42 Body of water into which the Danube
and Don discharge (5,3)
44 Make use of unfairly (7)
46 Starchy tuberous root used as food (7)
48 Ornament fastened to clothing (6)
50 Group of eight players (5)
51 Horse-breeding establishment (4)Cryptic clues
Across
1 Feel the loss of planet’s great
beauty (4,5)
6 Diocese was perhaps making this
condition? (3,3,7)
13 Tin backed by engineers as a
valuable natural substance (5)
14 Certificates nobody in the office
has? (4,5)
15 One formerly driven to organise
crusade (4,3)
16 For film, polite folk like to choose
the lighter sort (9,6,7)
18 A woman holding other people
briefly in her prayers? (8)
20 Many happy returns for MP here?
(4,4)
21 Mark maybe Bismarck’s
watchword (5)
23 From peak, leader drops right back,
nowhere near podium finish (6)
24 Put up with a south wind? Not that
one (6)
25 Confessed end of working week
not always filled with love and
calmness (9)
28 Obtain file with trickery: that
should be reported (10)
29 Engine lacking constant
temperature for haul (4)
30 Endlessly tough surgeon seizes top
of scalpel for period of cutting (7)
32 On reflection silly lisp — I tick
boxes like being drunk (7)
34 Rejecting sexually ambivalent old
goat (4)
35 Just a two-course meal could be an
unacceptable idea (3-7)
38 Henry and Rose arranged to drive
off for hearing: it may bring them
luck (9)
39 Man fired by bureaucrat with good
courage (6)
40 Hall a great success, but no place
to get a drink (6)
43 Quietly swelling, becoming this?
(5)
45 So tennis involved strains (8)
47 A teacher enters bank, but not for
change (4-4)
49 There’s a drought; the teapot
works, though, as the saying goes
(2,5,5,3,2,5)
52 One against entering legal process
of no account (7)
53 Achieve reversal of revolutionary
loss of rights (9)
54 Permission to stick head out (5)
55 Girl who reacts with apathy, traffic
cops appearing (7,6)
56 Royal authentication left beside
ocean? (5,4)
Down
1 Minute horse enters frightening
collection of animals (9)
2 Intuition not immediately arousing
love? (6,5)
3 Cry of excitement before learner
makes turn (5)
4 Mount and gallop even faster (8)
5 Lower classes are not able to
handle wine (6)
6 Be irritated by bookworm, one of
unusual sense (4-6)
7 Airport outlet where staff have
nothing to do? (4-4,4)
8 Notice paper has run out (7)
9 How to make t-those old clothes
(7,3,4)
10 Serious, regular gaps in tummy
bone (7)
11 Omen certain to disturb seat of
empire (7,4)
12 Man entitled ahead of time to stop
short (4)
17 Very many thanks at end of tour
for guide (8)
19 Government facility: a police
station? (3,6)
22 Shares fish, relaxing here after
swim? (8)
25 To establish part of argument may
be an advantage in court (3,5)
26 Put into shape, since tangled (9)
27 Woman in work: one having
conversation on-line? (4,10)
28 This book isn’t one of the
Ruritanian series? No chance!
(3,1,4)
31 Detectives suppress vice among
more corrupt band of heralds (4,8)
33 In leaving the racetrack, rake
creates spinning (11)
36 Do survey in pouring rain and
gale? Tut! (11)
37 Brain cells struggling to identify
plant (6,4)
41 Why not take an extra month?
(3,2,4)
42 Half encourage a creative spirit (8)
44 Pressure to reconsider, getting a
peek ahead (7)
46 A misplaced lamb stew turns up:
bliss! (7)
48 Twice gallon bottles ruin pointer
(3,3)
50 Director wants one to go through
storyline (5)
51 A neighbour’s ID, about a half
incomplete (4)Across
1 Main; first in importance (9)
6 Tendency to be easily nauseated or
disgusted (13)
13 Large sea (5)
14 Ended, finished (9)
15 Impressive skill and delicacy (7)
16 Lower body of the US Congress
(5,2,15)
18 Small songbird (8)
20 Lazy (8)
21 Triangular roof end (5)
23 Early 20th-century artistic
movement (6)
24 Irritating inconvenience (6)
25 Plentiful state (9)
28 Beforehand (10)
29 Cannabis plant (4)
30 Hunting cry (5-2)
32 Formally decline to vote (7)
34 Loop; musicians (4)
35 Financial assistance to those not well
off (4,6)
38 Summer house with a view (9)
39 Manifestation of a deity (6)40 Charles —, US jazz double bassist
and band leader (6)
43 Supple and graceful (5)
45 Relating to a particular Athenian
philosopher (8)
47 Scottish port on Loch Broom (8)
49 Hope to ensure good luck (4,4,7,7)
52 Capital of Libya (7)
53 Comparable in certain respects (9)
54 Jewelled headband (5)
55 Photographic equipment (7,6)
56 Completely unfeeling (9)Down
1 Accurately predicting the future (9)
2 Unfair (11)
3 Simple boat (5)
4 Person rejecting war (8)
5 Surgical blade (6)
6 (Of weather) hot and humid nature
(10)
7 Not yet found (12)
8 Moderately slow (in music) (7)
9 Basic services for society such as
power, transport, etc (14)times2 clues
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