Crossword for Mon, 19/Feb/2018

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Across
1: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

3: Short time for the Irish (5)

5: Drain off lowest part (5)

6: Inactive side (3)

8: Came back on a diet anew and wasted away (9)

10: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

11: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

13: There's uranium in many a flower (5)

14: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

Down
1: A child toils to produce poems (7)

2: Bloody bored inside (3)

3: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

4: Sit on marsupials and rats tail (5)

7: They are instrumental in petty swindles (7)

9: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

12: Frantically conceals twitch (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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S
R
E
T
R
U
S
O
A
E
O
F
F
O
R
I
D
A
N
I
S
N
N
D
E
T
A
I
C
A
M
E
D
S
D
T
L
E
T
O
H
E
U
S
E
I
E
P
S
O
C
S
U
T
O
L