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Cryptic crossword №40: RUMBA

ACROSS:

1. Flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous

5. Not having enough money to pay for necessities

9. Someone who makes or repairs guns

10. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces

12. A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

13. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance

14. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

16. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

19. Bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railway) over a valley

21. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

23. Bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice

25. Having the same or nearly the same characteristics

26. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

27. Any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation

28. In the middle of

29. (medicine) remove surgically

DOWN:

1. (law) a gift of personal property by will

2. Fine porcelain that contains bone ash

3. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba

4. (informal) at the required standard, of good enough quality

6. An antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin

7. Russian country house

8. An Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon)

11. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

15. (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear

17. Cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia

18. A salutation to the Virgin Mary now used in prayers to her

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

21. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

22. Not agitated; without losing self-possession

24. A person born in the United States of parents who emigrated from Japan

25. A farewell remark

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