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ACROSS
1 Pledge by America creating a fit? (6)
5 Worker on land, some might say, for the drugs industry (6)
9 Worker has a crop that’s fantastic stored in building briefly — some fruit that may be (12)
10 Farm-worker trapping a foot (5)
12 Hush before group of rugby players set out (6)
14 False attitude restrictive for small person (8)
15 One of several children — couple starts to tend them with difficulty? (8)
16 A group of volunteers to protect very large city in Italy (5)
18 Sentimentality about old swimmer flailing around (5)
20 Tree as something depicted on workers’ banner? (5)
24 Lines giving directions in Scotland back to front (5)
27 Like a swamp near ground in winding lane (8)
29 Piece of furniture in a room with Chinese atmosphere (8)
30 Fumed with indication to stop, stifling yell of fear (6)
31 Entertainer is given a plant (5)
32 Clot upsetting mama with curtness (12)
33 Crystal-gazer uses dubious sorcery, nothing less (6)
34 Certainly a place that’s filthy and frothy (6)
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1 Dad gets tense about nasty smell in baby’s bowl (7)
2 Taxes in Scotland when wine is carried by ship (6)
3 Sauce hideously prepared nasty deli put out (5)
4 Nothing on lines at bottom of academic room list (6)
5 Dance to deem out of date (6)
6 After almost 30 days wine grape is in fruit (7)
7 Nasty colour left out — bring in superior colouring (6)
8 One seeking a newt (5)
11 Deck tennis service may go outside court with a splash (8)
13 Greek character to hold on, one held to be a sort of optimist (8)
17 Beatrice said to be mischievous (7)
19 Random mating gives one of the little women pain at first (7)
21 Soiled areas transformed, mop with no little work being introduced (6)
22 Girl in revolution, rising for a month (6)
23 Colourful sort of belief — enquire impertinently about it (6)
25 Goes off and takes it easy, wanting afternoon inside (6)
26 Heading north, food and drug agents (5)
28 Fruity types soon coming down — before start of autumn (5)
Post your solution to Mephisto 2877, The Sunday Times, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, or email puzzle.entries@sunday-times.co.uk. The first correct solution picked at random after next Saturday wins a Whitaker’s Almanack worth £50. Four runners-up will each receive £20. The Chambers Dictionary 13th edition is the primary reference. Readers may e-mail comments or queries to puzzle.feedback@sunday-times.co.uk
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SOLUTION TO MEPHISTO 2876
Across: 1 Writers, 7 Reign, 11 Schantze, 12 Snorts, 13 Ragu, 14 Teniae, 15 Psalms, 16 Egyptologist, 18 Bansela, 22 Opsonin, 24 Resignedness, 26 Tuareg, 27 Feeble, 29 Sine, 30 Stolon, 31 Chancier, 32 Hasty, 33 Greener
Down: 1 Waste, 2 Renegate, 3 Iron, 4 Thrips, 5 Estate agency, 6 Shiplap, 7 Raisons d’être, 8 Enrage, 9 Italic, 10 Neuston, 17 Ski slope, 18 Bortsch, 19 Long pig, 20 Asanas, 21 Virent, 23 One-one, 25 Senor, 28 Blin
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Winners
Mephisto 2874
Fiona Bruce, Dumfries,
A Evans, Killay, West Glamorgan,
P Jones, Castleford, West Yorkshire,
David McKirdy, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire,
Jean Tarry, Hawkshaw, Greater Manchester