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December 2024 Monthly Crossword
The Journeyman
This month's puzzle commemorates the journeyman, as can be seen especially in four of the down clues. Superfluous words (tenuously linked) in fifteen other clues spell out, in clue order, an appropriate phrase.
| Across | | 6 | Show progress to father, trapping sheep (5) | | 7 | National odyssey for one person embracing rice trade (8) | | 10 | Cutting route, using wings in leaving (7) | | 11 | Suffering more upset in explosive trip (7) | | 12 | Skirt around first bollard, undertake vehicle (7) | | 13 | Plump for Eve battling Democrat? (7) | | 14 | Lump it, jerk - dishonest goal increasing (11) | | 19 | Arrive second in stadium with large weapons (7) | | 21 | Main drink from Lisbon, say? (7) | | 23 | Money-making company's popular labour duration (7) | | 25 | Transport 'affected' manner to 'sophisticated' (7) | | 26 | Bullfighting movement's flower trek (8) | | 27 | Tent ordeal to support inclusion of exercise (5) |
| | Down | | 1 | Plant a fire in chimney (8) | | 2 | He's obsessed with returning Iliad to first killer in the morning? (6) | | 3 | Journeyman means to explore Asia/globe, right? (3,7) | | 4 | In case navigation passage of Seville stalls (4) | | 5,16 | Journeyman's journey: go and poach food, pee uncontrollably (4,2,4,4) | | 6 | See 17 | | 8 | Raise up hearts of old emirs from Middle East? (7) | | 9 | Room for boss by terminal departure bay (5) | | 13 | Maybe Asia sold us words honouring journeyman? (2,8) | | 15 | Old itinerary left working muffle a bit obsolete (4-3) | | 16 | See 5 | | 17,6 | Journeyman very like fish cooker, to a degree (5,2,4) | | 18 | Fix basic adventure (6) | | 20 | Pungent matter when flushing cesspit, releasing tonnes (6) | | 22 | Provide air time? Wore out (6) | | 24 | Split vent (4) |
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