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Cryptic 9x9 #5 by tuber

15 Oct 2023

Clues

Across

  1. 4 Rides nude, jiggling bottom (9)
  2. 7 Tart that might be described as ’easy’ (3)
  3. 8, 9A, 11A Streak in the toilet bowl that may never be repeated (5, 2, 3, 3)
  4. 9 See 8A.
  5. 11 See 8A.
  6. 12 Hans Christian Andersen, or Scooby Doo maybe? (5, 4)

Down

  1. 1 Ring bell to bring in stewed plum pudding (8)
  2. 2 Creep’s trimmed bush (4)
  3. 3 Keen to be upstanding for leading lady (4)
  4. 5 Think about bum cleft (7)
  5. 6 Renovated each end, new and improved (8)
  6. 10 That’s cute, being first to take the piss (4)
  7. 11 Said to be voyeuristic: reach climax (4)

Setter’s notes

Sorry about all the innuendo and toilet humour in this one. Private Eye’s Cyclops is a bad influence sometimes — to say nothing of Viz’s Craptic Crossword.

Across

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