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Puzzle 2 by Soup
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Soup’s second offering is an alphabetical jigsaw, and he’s managed to emulate Araucaria in that the clues are presented as rhyming couplets with a regular metre. That’s quite some achievement, especially as he’s managed this without taking more than the occasional and forgivable liberty with the cryptic grammar. Bravo! (PDF version)

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Solutions should be fitted into the grid jigsaw-wise, wherever they will go.

A Electric rock band - I twice brought in tart (6)
B Fish with John’s jet-man, who’s large at heart (6)
C Twelve textual points from orator in Rome (6); One calls about the sites of many a home (6)
D Signal weary French girl, Spooner said (8)
E A job to do - poor Bernard’s lost his head (6)
F Wild? Nonsense! Rather calm, except at first (6)
G Put up with awful groans and dire outburst (10)
H A chained wild group of cattle could be here (8)
I Numbers diamonds set with piece of sapphire (8)
J Rejoice as fibre coats a Liberal back (8)
K In India, see his mark suffer attack (7)
L Matches with affection, point to point (6)
M Oddly mounts, unable to have joint (6)
N Directions seen: tuck nothing inside bunk (8)
O Round window is unseen by luscious drunk (6)
P Frenchman gets turn in after lunch for prize (7)
Q More sick? Half put out, shakily arise (8)
R Conscience-stricken, like a copper's day? (10)
S Percussion battered in a speedy way (10)
T Salute that masks bad noise with soft ingress (3,4,3)
U With wariness and caution - hardly? Yes! (8)
V Proud, said it’s to show the line of draught (4)
W Some fellow anglers use a little craft (6)
X The girl Anne’s told where statues guard the dead (4)
Y Murky ale is spilt on Hebrew’s head (8)
Z Love booze - a lager’s two-thirds disappeared (4); On coast of Egypt raised, in Athens feared (4)




Solution to Puzzle 2 by Soup