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Eight solutions contain the same three-letter word which is omitted from the subsidiary indications. (For example, if the word omitted word were PEN, the subsidiary indication to ‘OPENER’ might be ‘over in short’.) If you prefer to work on the interactive version, you should click on this link, which will take you to the Crossword Compiler web page.

Across

1  Horse bearing Frenchmen sprang (7)

5  Measure short record with a laugh (5)

8  Sham Ionians and foolish Epicureans (6-7)

9  The German origin in brief (3)

10  With keen vision and with a touch of delight curiously spy hare (5-4)

12  Briskly walk golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway (6)

13  North Jutland port Cardinal Borghese shelters (6)

15  Gone queerly  poisonous, harmful to parts of DNA (9)

16  Sink and raise airy substance (3)

18  Genetic disorder strangely expressed in dry-stone terms (5,8)

20  Clasp short growth of hair (5)

21  Gazed with a droopy look (3-4)

Down

1  Warrant peculiar spade (5)

2  Related to the building of continents by earth’s crust movement – energetic op, that is chaotic (13)

3  Most unpretentious fashion society put to proof (9)

4  Book of the Bible raised codes of beliefs accepted as authoritative (6)

5  Poetic decline of first lady (3)

6  Frightening tale and long rambling joke (5-3,5)

7  Put to death a contemptible person (7)

11  English following curtailed plan of action – help for forces of order (6,3)

12  Gentle pace is wrong going back (7)

14  Having a bovine look, did as instructed with a kiss replacing a bow initially (2-4)

17  Lecturer in troublesome edgy old corporation (5)

19  Locally strain and mangle an affirmative response (3)

Here is last week’s solution.

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