Special, Sunday 20 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Final Crossword 2

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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ACROSS
1   Father concealing deceit ultimately backs risky speculations (6)
4   Criticize harshly! Shocking to grab single female (7)
8   Summon strike first and run riot (7)
9   Girl with evidence backing dissident (7)
11 Singer, endlessly conceited, lousy in circuit (10)
12 Mountaineers plausibly keep going around mountains (4)
13 Forgetting name, relatives recollect unusual but friendly form of address (5)
14 Largely overindulge devouring a lot, possibly leading to this? (8)
16 Take a bath perhaps and be overtly flirtatious? (3,5)
18 Mockery! Bit unfair on youngster (5)
20 Swimmer beginning to accelerate in concluding event (4)
21 Business associate admits debt is on a massive scale (10)
23 Plans to hide his reckless misadventures (7)
24 Ace by wife captures king, finally making contract (7)
25 Utter...utter radio silence (4,3)
26 Grain given by sailors in barge (6)

DOWN
1   Right to take in student showing talent (5)
2   How poet introduced himself? Shut up! (7)
3   A character chasing girl in skirt! That's nonsense (9)
5   Take away suspicious parcel unopened (5)
6   Top arts centre renovated to stage a past event (7)
7   Shallowness and impertinence by Trump finally breaks illusion (9)
10 Jump to embrace maiden with body that's a stunner (9)
13 What one might do with champagne bottle to delay action? (4,2,3)
15 Possible to disregard old boy crushed by weapon that is thrown (9)
17 Fellow flogged and shot (7)
19 Victory for Republican! Speech gets applause (7)
21 Caught pair cavorting in Italian island (5)
22 Allowed princely leader to change sides (5)

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Special, Wednesday 16 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Final Crossword 1

TWO answers per commenter as this is a 13x13, till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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ACROSS
1   Fail to notice mountain route alongside (4,2)
4   Small snake slithers around weapons (6)
9   Commendations will come, once I am settled (7)
10 Rule out more substantial drink (5)
11 Endlessly overlooked essentially fit immigrant (5)
12 Writing includes liberal hint (7)
13 It keeps on talking to get one tug (7,6)
17 Fear over middlemen's lading (7)
19 Just about fifty have aptitude (5)
21 Bug loses right part of body (5)
22 Old vessel held by staff is stout (7)
23 Home for boxer, maybe (6)
24 Sacred section of temple sees negligence of duty in morning (6)

DOWN
1   Player's first critique of teaser (7)
2   'Aw, gee!' Ousting husband is terrible! (5)
3   Disney film raises popular issue in Italy (7)
5   Karakul leaves central farm crazily to find rich farmer (5)
6   Manoeuvring wife away for fishing (7)
7   Released no new timber prop (5)
8   Diversity that is brought into fixed navigator (11)
14 That woman’s relative follows girl in a pickle (7)
15 Ohio females drove, we hear, in domain for 4x4s (3-4)
16 A primarily righteous model developed royal estate (7)
17 Request to obtain fluid early in this container? (5)
18 My incomplete collection of birds (5)
20 A grown-up (5)

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Special, Sunday 13 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Preliminary Crossword 2

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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Note to solvers: A “letter bank” is a word or phrase with no repeated letters that provides the material for a longer word or phrase containing each letter of the “bank” at least once. For example, MOTHER is a letter bank for THERMOMETER, and FRACTIONS is a letter bank for SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI.

ACROSS
1   See good person nearly going outside one boutique (9)
6   Sticky drone beside finger (5)
9   Lead-free air’s surrounding a few chemical compounds (7)
10 Grouch protects Latin American nation (7)
11 Dance hall music genre completely accepted by newlywed (5,8)
13 Saudi’s neighbour returned in a second (5)
14 Create bit of fever by mutating bacteria (9)
16 American river sent churning with repeated use (9)
18 Excited chap embraces English beauty (5)
20 Retrospective done away with in a kind of talk not keeping anyone awake? (13)
24 Leader of army pondering diverting (7)
25 Coppers arresting 51 customers of a law firm (7)
26 Fate closed gambling game (5)
27 Finally liberate body part caught in streetcar’s wires (9)

DOWN
1   Produce British band for Thursday (5,5)
2   Botanical pores recalled as covering most of red fruit (7)
3   Ring composer maintains resistance to extremely volatile state of intense activity (9)
4   Order a stagecoach carrying dreadlocks wearer (5)
5   Rum drink quality keeps pub out front (4,5)
6   Circle at bottom of Hades: are you there? (5)
7   Mom crosses a border with black instrument (7)
8   Race day, sort of grey (4)
12 Protestants sat down at the front in lifts (10)
14 The endless presents, even though all rebuffed engagement (9)
15 Troublemaker close, hovering in a menacing way (9)
17 Certainly drop off asleep clutching front of bathrobe (2,5)
19 Choose as needed from neat cricket feature (7)
21 I contributed to Tuscany’s dear city (5)
22 Outdo forty of the Romans, we hear (5)
23 Family drops my bomb (4)

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Special, Sunday 06 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Preliminary Crossword No 1

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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ACROSS
1   Called a foul as table's empty (7)
5   It's true no one went back to camp (7)
9   Sportsman left out, he carries drinks (5)
10 Flirt on the quiet, Scot's no good husband (9)
11 Turnover capital in straight line- good and uplifting (9)
12 Rope in the cultural association (5)
13 Goes up, exposes member (4)
15 Lads love to catch crabs in the pond (8)
18 Novel idea, sung as an invocation (5,3)
19 Bad from top to bottom (4)
22 Categorises differently - with escort you get protection (5)
24 Going against history - Oxford has this course (9)
26 The German cleans it up in exchange (9)
27 Sharpen writing before it flows (5)
28 Oddly early bird's in front of breeding ground (7)
29 Statute perhaps stretched to the extremes (7)

DOWN
1   Right winger's lament... (6)
2   ...contrarily, on starting, it may be hurting someone (9)
3   Pound close to Dollar, both can be converted (5)
4   Prime suspect in currency rate (9)
5   Throw a stone if George becomes tense (5)
6   Measure up to block reform- it's a dare (9)
7   With diligence go after a flower (5)
8   Contricted now, a doubler is put in (6)
14 Unhappiness over quality of paving material (9)
16 Extremely devious site (9)
17 Call on the way, one comes down hard (9)
20 Look at possible danger (6)
21 It's very fast and strait (6)
23 Exuberance got us in trouble (5)
24 Mark the centre on light display (5)
25 Concealed in some super-duper surroundings (5)

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Special, Sunday 30 Dec 18, IXL-18 Audience Crossword

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
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ACROSS
5   Correct to joke with one's husband (6)
7   Meet head of contingent on border (8)
9   Plant dissent in fictional computer? (8)
10 Hospital department managed dead for commission (6)
11 Romantic chap dances with all colours of the rainbow (12)
13 Look for corner bridge (6)
15 English take a long time to connect (6)
18 Computer user hacked lawmaker (7,5)
21 Chengiz Khan's one single incomplete aim: sack America (6)
22 At German city, Eastern boy with cap on (8)
23 Inspector backs condition restraining society (8)
24 Dog killed & chewed head off bird (6)

DOWN
1   Reverend's permit officer can help kill quietly? (8)
2   My love, try to accept date... (2,4)
3   Trouble at a French city in the Northwest - Amazon's headquarters to move out (8)
4   Mistake to reinforce Central offices with iron (6)
6   Unprepared for a Spanish female's stuff (8)
7   We are not associated with mostly unwelcome scandalous article (6)
8   General Tito's main man (4)
12 Pain-giver's tottering - overcome by time (8)
14 Desperate football player shoots regularly over - scores ultimately (8)
16 Arrangement of crack infused with ecstasy? Setter to have a go... (8)
17 Section of memorial’s front has burning wood (6)
18 Inverted "X"s framed general issue stamp (6)
19 European organisation controls International body - church is one lacking power (6)
20 God of banjo's sensationally restrained (4)

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