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Cryptic crossword №14: VACUUM CLEANER

ACROSS:

1. The wife of a reigning king

10. Cause great unhappiness for; distress

11. No amount at all; something of no value or importance

12. (computing) decompress a compressed file (often in the 'zip' format)

13. Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

15. A name between your first name and your surname

16. The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

18. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

20. A riotous brawl or heated argument

22. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

24. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

26. Reduce pressure or intensity

27. Small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish

28. A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

DOWN:

2. Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension

3. A poll of voters as they leave the voting place; usually taken by news media in order to predict the outcome of an election

4. Make reference to

5. Loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

6. Money paid out; an amount spent

7. A port city and commercial centre in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea

8. An electrical home appliance that cleans by suction

9. An ugly or unpromising child who grows into a beautiful or worthy person

14. So unexpected as to have not been imagined

17. The superior of a group of nuns

19. Of recognized authority or excellence

21. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

23. A visual representation (of an object, scene, person or abstraction) produced on a surface

25. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction


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