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BYLINE TIMES CROSSWORD #6set by Dr DivaApril 2021

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Across

    1  Hollow decision before setting off was one lacking context (11)

    7  Spread ship’s fate at sea (4, 5)

  12  Fraudulent plan to rehabilitate maids caught at border opening fire (7,6)

  13  Poles’ adoption of working margin prevents skidding (3-4)

  14  Light snow settles on those up late (5,4)

  15  Inventor draws on waste slate (5)

  16  Ring peaks before making trunk (5)

  17  Decline accepting police backing and give up (8)

  19  Test of air intake leads to breakdown during arrival (12)

  21  Assume story teller doesn’t start heading west after reviewing discharge (7)

  23  Minor part in a seduction that might, I hear, go either way? (6)

  25  Abandon a trial for solitary worship (6)

  27  Tinder telephone service for overseas time travellers? (13,4,4)

  29  Final appearance of Scandinavian, say, born into exile (6)

  31  Cockney monkey with bullseye breaks into fruit seller (6)

  32  Concerns trading arrangement with a sporting event (7)

  35  Traffic controller’s money covers promotion, including cosmetic surgery, perhaps (8,4)

  37  A managed return to elegance becomes chaotic (8)

  40  EU member’s suffering (5)

  41  Life history of someone’s soldiers (5)

  42  Maybe star’s about to point to large growth (5,4)

  44  When batting, winning appeal has no external assistance (2-5)

  45  Shamefully, very little is involved with you losing resolve (13)

  46  You leave lad with power to break Fatty Arbuckle’s first disc (9)

  47  Vagrant curates site to restore life (11)

Down

    1  Extravagant dressers drop by to meet birds (9)

    2  Up in arms as mission overwhelms prevailing style (7)

    3  Not fulfilled taking turns to ruin amnesty (5)

    4  Decline to crash on the toilet? (2,4,3,3)

    5  Mark held by former vessel is not needed (6)

    6  Standard article has sign like the heavens above (3,4-8,6)

    7  Cut plant without cost to singer (7)

    8  Ashen, but somehow try to get darker (8)

    9  Bone has an inner corona (9)

  10  Control way to bypass imp’s hold (4-9)

  11  Make a proper exit difficult to take (11)

  18  Singers freed by macho ironman (5)

  20  Force fools glib Old Etonian extremists (6)

  22  Unlikely talent he used to interrupt Dad making shiny material (6,7)

  24  French article about incentive to draw (6)

  26  Guardians engineer rations to fill up boxers (6,6)

  27  Completely change opinion when really busy (2,4,5)

  28  Anxious that monarch keeps time (5)

  30  Lords reuse sign maybe (9)

  33  The most typical Jaguar? (9)

  34  Angry about doctor using up alternative headwear (8)

  36  Cat-like occupation takes an age (7)

  38  Paste initially horrible song about German soldiers (7)

  39  Sprays son after yours truly has potato mostly as starter (6)

  43  Art Deco library infested with bugs (1,4)