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Tracks
No 1520
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 Unattractive quality (8)
11 Green (16)
12 Put in order (7)
15 Loud, harsh (8)
19 Savoury pieces of fried or toasted
bread (8)
22 Way of presenting data (3,5)
23 How cameras record (16)
27 Military stronghold (8)
28 Medicine; narcotic (4)
30 In good order (4)
32 Kept busy; filled (8)
34 Small runway (8)
35 Relating to good food eating (11)
36 Repeat assessment (11)
37 Fear of open places (11)
40 Carrier for sick or injured person
(9)
42 Element with symbol Nd (9)
43 River rising in Ethiopia (4,4)
44 Radioactive element (7)
46 Tense and nervous (2,4)
47 Domesticated polecat (6)
51 Phone message (4)Cryptic clues
Across
1 Producer of purchase initially
causing argument at pub (7)
5 Fellow lodger, Aussie native,
beginning to make tea (8)
9 Frenzied bully in charge replacing
certain soldiers (6)
13 Expose oneself to danger as a
tortoise might do? (5,4,4,3)
14 Match ending with half of team in
cell! (6)
16 Doctor going over Lake Poet’s
early life (8)
17 Cleaning-mop primarily serving
businesses around Washington (4)
18 Reportedly made it to vessel in
time for wooing (9)
20 Method of payment connected
with American car and aircraft (8)
21 Officer’s position originally taken
by English girl with place in Paris
(11)
24 Directions given by the Spanish,
no less, producing refreshments (9)
25 Vegetation identified by retired
Frenchman in drab clothing (8)
26 Dish moderate Tories sent back (4)
29 Lisa’s thirty, surprisingly: she’s
probably made a bob or two (11)
31 Speedy field trip excluding North
America (11)
33 Outlet Lara and I manufactured
for vegetable casserole (11)
36 Soldiers in Irish story beyond
rectification (11)
38 Part of Iceland’s style and vigour
(4)
39 Report from crime investigator’s
area (8)
41 Sow efficiently, protecting head of
pretty plant (9)
44 Strange thing, Queen holding
drink for hotel employee (5,6)
45 Cut back on fish, consuming roasts
principally (8)
48 Criminal type, one-time complier
(9)
49 Culturally pretentious leader
banished from political group (4)
50 Policeman needing dope, carrying
weapon back to front (8)
52 Grand way to replace one pound in
cash (6)
53 Talk of something else, as
composers of variations do (6,3,7)
54 Attempt to cross French island, a
source of baked clay (6)
55 Confine mischievous child no
teacher backed (8)
56 Person domiciled at first with Tony
or Sam? (7)
Down
1 Jointly authorise mathematician’s
function, do we hear? (6)
2 Willow patch of great size that is
overlooking railway (6)
3 Abuse OK, he recollected, where
bloomers are often made (9)
4 Managed business appallingly
sourly, with malicious
resentfulness (11)
5 Hasten to remove initiator of
crime from crowd (4)
6 Agitated wife in excessively tough
time (11)
7 Fantasy force crushing Adam and
Eve? (4-7)
8 Current member finally has meal,
missing starter, in club (9)
10 Demanding divorcee possibly
treading the boards (8)
11 Initial problems with canine
development? (8,8)
12 Fellow left city at last, securing
drug at little cost (7)
15 Collected condiment? You might
pick that up (8)
19 Tamworth’s desire for kitchen
scraps? (8)
22 When speaking, observe husky, an
upright swimmer (8)
23 Hospital doctor and senior officer
meeting census organiser (9,7)
27 Wind wildly lashing yews at first
around compound (8)
28 E.g. Marilyn Monroe’s heavenly
body? (4)
30 Established retreat ultimately
where badgers are found (4)
32 Hanger-on where airborne soldiers
may be billeted (8)
34 Prescribed clothes a French class is
without (8)
35 Comedian, possibly, throwing a
party? (11)
36 Trendy woman’s current hair
feature, one that succeeds (11)
37 Went before exercises ended,
carrying snooker ball (11)
40 Noble securing fifth of wealth with
bogus corded fabric (9)
42 Detectives in Bedale bust? That’s
possible to determine (9)
43 Casual walker’s posh car at end of
street (8)
44 Canoodle, meeting obstruction,
a simple pendant (7)
46 Trying experience of French in
viva voce (6)
47 Guide taking soldiers to river (6)
51 Evade the drill sergeant’s
command? (4)Across
1 Ribbon decoration (7)
5 Laboratory item (4,4)
9 Cry of discovery (6)
13 Negotiation using a go-between
(7,9)
14 Wading bird (6)
16 Excessive sentimentality (8)
17 Prejudice (4)
18 Accident where a driver did not
stop (3-3-3)
20 Allow reckless activity to continue
(3,2,3)
21 Revival of renewed interest (11)
24 Track and field sports (9)
25 Protected (8)
26 Feudal labourer (4)
29 Settled in advance (3,3,5)
31 Person authoring another’s book
(5,6)
33 Making worse; annoying (11)
36 Oblong (11)
38 Tailless amphibian (4)
39 Waters west of Great Britain (5,3)41 Forecast (of the course of a
disease) (9)
44 Furniture coverer (11)
45 Animal preying on another (8)
48 One perhaps trying to turn lead
into gold (9)
49 Ark builder (4)
50 Native American (8)
52 Decorated with embedded pieces
(6)
53 Play by Ibsen (3,6,7)
54 Violent disorder (6)
55 Ornamental wristband (8)
56 Side of a chair (7)
Down
1 Withstand; struggle against (6)
2 Like partially melted snow (6)
3 Conversation à deux (4-1-4)
4 Charged; suddenly excited (11)
5 Thin woody shoot (4)
6 Taken upon oneself (4-7)
7 Cynically adapting to current
fashion (11)
8 Wild and drunken revel (9)times2 clues
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