Crosswords/2005/September/5

Quick crossword

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Across

2. Tolerated, struggled with (7)

8. One who operates a system (4)

9. Trainspotter (UK sl.) (6)

10. Irritated (7)

11. Snake sound (4)

12. Flowering shrub (6)

16. Event in the Christian calendar (6)

19. Astral body (4)

21. Number divisible by only itself and 1 (5)

22. Ear bone (7)

23. Opposite to solo (5)

24. Volcano action (5)

25. One who wants to ascend a 24 ac. (7)

26. Said to go with anything (5)

27. Division of 38 ac. (4)

29. Preceding rinsing and repeating (6)

32. To regard (6)

36. Australia's largest lake (4)

37. Cleaning fluid (7)

38. Monetary unit (6)

39. Cleaning solid (4)

40. Wrap (5)

Down

1. Help (6)

2. Used to remove pencil marks (6)

3. Sandhills (5)

4. Poetic convention (5)

5. Poetic/artistic movement (4)

6. Couch (4)

7. Rescue (4)

13. Fastener (6)

14. Describing activities for relaxation (7)

15. Awake, aware (5)

17. Simple (mathematical) (7)

18. Grilled cheese (UK common term) (7)

20. Entice (7)

22. A communist symbol (6)

23. Flat surface on legs (5)

27. Fold (6)

28. Perpendicular; common (6)

30. Having weaponry (5)

31. Indian hand decoration (5)

33. What the musical direction Lento means (4)

34. Long slender fish (4)

35. Grade (4)

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