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Crossword - May 2005

After great anticipation here's the May crossword, bigger and better than ever! In addition to the solutions for April and March there's now a guide and glossary which may (or may not) show the method in our madness.

Send in your entry: Good luck!

Prize Crossword #3 set by Vanden and Thryn

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1See 18 across
230 7 star 11 (4)
3See 1 across
5Gas exchangers in cages (5)
6I am, after all, good but not well 30 7 star (7)
7See 30 across
8Jackie holding back current measure gives 30 7 star (7)
9Swarm about revolutionary in Burnham (7)
10, 5030 7 sketch - adored frail pet, confused and lifeless (4, 6)
12See 51 across
17See 25 down
18Wildly seduce around 50 then isolate (7)
19A representative chap (5)
20Russian writer heard to stop and clear throat (7)
21See 51 across
22See 18 across
23As quiet as 7 relative (3)
25, 17 down30 7 line: crisp fog across river (7, 4)
28Shade for the spanish left away from umbrella (5)
31Confirmation of 32 mix-up missing 1000 (3)
32Yikes! One less confusion gives answers (4)
34Laughing crone loses right but gets left with biscuit (6)
35Select a piece, apart from taking king (7)
38See 51 across
40I box initially just ugly muddled trinkets (6)
41See 53 across
43See 51 across
44Little dipper found in marina chore (5)
46Minor adjustment makes model unsteady (5)
48See 18 across
Across
1,3 downDig this belief for animation - 30 7 song (6, 4, 2, 4)
3Usually found in the loft (3)
4See 30 across
8Stirred by calm crash manufacturer (6)
11Tired? Lay about sound asleep (4)
13Incense Lee - I'm mad! (5)
14Hint: nun eating a church! (6)
15See 29 across
16Porridge that's after party (7)
17Diet for loud people who won't button it (6)
18, 22, 48, 1 down, 3730 7 line spoiling can gag on bed with four faulty maps (4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3, 4)
21Wrongly seek a man e.g. Wellesley to the capital(8)
24Measures of topless attacks (6)
26Funny sounds keeping animals off the lawn (2-2)
27Half of ten animals I slam in a net, for example, giving 30 7 star (5)
29, 1530 7 characters - soldiers reportedly find Saddam and I (7, 3, 3, 2)
30, 7, 4, 39It's... strongly psychotic? I'm funny!(5, 7, 6, 6)
33Robe worn primarily to outline gentlemen's authority(4)
34Cheese accepts student emitting hydrogen for 30 7 star (6)
36See 51 down
38Several thousand and one (4)
39See 29 across
40Foretell of nose having sixth sense (7)
42Diabolical anti-mass makes a travesty of Christian rites (8)
45Informed fast about a right (6)
4730 7 star found retreating in risen OJ (5)
49Lead Y2K in a circle (4)
50See 10 down
51, 43, 38 down, 36, 21, 1230 7 line: manic mother nags youth habits, yea he's even shy (3, 3, 3, 7, 3, 1, 4, 7, 3)
52Curse of base 16 (3)
53, 41Timber! Michael finds gravity for 30 7 number (10, 4)