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NUMBER 70 – DECEMBER 2026
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1( With 8) Swindler with honesty provides marine animal charity( 5,5)
4 Angler’ s equipment just like boats are this on the surface( 6)
9 An ancient sailor?( 7)
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10 Arctic seas will feel like this compared with here in France with a touch of hesitation( 5)
11 This organ needs water( in other words) to give a type of 14( 4)
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13 The Suez is an old example and also what might result from 23( 3)
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14( With 13 down) Equidae canister used for emergency purposes?( 4,8)
16 Famous wreck to follow the likes of Earps or Berry perhaps?( 4)
18 Stoney Cove divers are initially going backwards when it comes to this ailment( 3 init.)
20 Shift shift can without the aid of nitrogen to locate sea creature( 7)
21 Bay in the North Sea beginning where all seagulls hibernate( 4)
24 Wrecks or caves e. g. are often in this state when using some Afro pedalos( 5)
25 EU twits arrange for necessary insulation( 7)
26 Sort her out with no hotel where a dive centre is usually based( 6)
27 Say hurrah to NATO( 5)
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1 I am lost( not quite at the end) in discovering Northumbrian wreck( 6)
2 Firth Island is in radar range( 5)
3 Could this crab also be a fisher?( 4)
5 From seals to penguins they possess these that divers jokingly refer to!( 8)
6 Peruvian capital abstains from resolving northern oil rigs for starting points( 7)
7 A breed of 1 across could presumably do this, as could arable farmers?( 6)
8( See 1 across) 13( See 14)
15 Creature giving name to divers’ emergency equipment?( 7)
17 1 across may act as one of these for those of a nervous disposition!( 6)
18 Who said( without using AI) restructure these Arabian vessels?( 5)
19( With 12) Sweep his tooth away to reveal a pair of“ our” contributors( 3,3,7)
22 A uniform bar could develop into a Caribbean island( 5)
23 In West Aberdeen you’ ll find an old BCD( 4)