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This week’s crossword is a quick one.  If you wish to work on the interactive version, you must click on this link. Ut will take you to the Crossword Compiler web page.

Across

1 Projecting spouts from which a fluid is discharged (7)

5 Establish by deduction (5)

8 Those who survey, or draw maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores (13)

9 Unit of length of thread or yarn (3)

10 The region around the South Pole (9)

12 An ungenerous, small-minded or malicious person (6)

13 Honorary title in India given to a Hindu scholar (6)

15 Any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago (9)

16 Particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative) (3)

18 Line marking the highest level reached (4-5,4)

20 Person of exceptional importance and reputation (5)

21 Set in conflict (7)

Down

1 Nothing (5)

2 Luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset (8,5)

3 Be brisk (4,5)

4 (Scotland) a valley of considerable size, through which a river runs (6)

5 One who is playfully mischievous (3)

6 Naval officer of the highest rank (5,8)

7 Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; – said of diamonds and other precious stones (4-3)

11 Journey to some place and back again (5,4)

12 Unusually successful item with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie, play, recording or novel) (7)

14 Small cave (usually with attractive features) (6)

17 Devoid of elaboration, diminution or concealment; bare and pure (5)

19 Attain success or reach a desired goal (3)

Here is last week’s solution:

MB was changed to ST in the words: rumble, womb, thimble, iambic, amber, tremble, symbolic, limbless, clumber and lambs.

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