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Copyright © Richard Sabey 2003
 
 

"It is quite a three-pipe problem."—REDH

Across

1"He has every ___," said Duncan Ross of Jabez Wilson, "I cannot recall when I have seen anything so fine." (11)
6One-horse carriage in which Mortimer rode to Baskerville Hall (3)
8The veiled lodger's initials (2)
9"Vox populi, vox ___" (3)
11How Holmes thumped on the Saxe- Coburg Square pavement (10)
12Newspaper in which Holmes read a report of the murder at Mawson's (7,8)
17Sloth (2)
18He owned a Birmingham music hall (3)
20The Foreign Office commissionaire had served in this town's Guards regiment (10)
22"Saxe-Coburg" is such a name (6-9)
27Initials of an Italian maid whose brother was murdered (2)
28You could do this at a place between McFarlane's and the bank which Clay tried to rob (3)
30The office where Wilson sat writing was in this street (5,5)
31Mrs. Warren's house was here (5,4,6)
36How Watson described Wilson on first seeing him (7)
37"It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty ___" (7)

Down

1Clay's scam (3-6,6)
2Before (3)
3Old Testament priest (3)
4Self-confidence (3)
5Hour at which Wilson would stop working for 1dn (3)
6"L'homme, c'est rien — l'oeuvre, c'est tout" Holmes remarks, quoting this author (7,8)
7How Mr. Sherman was treated by children (5)
10Some Abbey Grange silver was stashed under this (3)
13By way of (3)
14Schmaltz (3)
15Baldwin's first name (3)
16After serving in Afghanistan, Watson's skin was this brown (3)
19"I could tell ___ tales of cobbler's wax..." (3)
21Holmes looked at Sylvius like a chess-player who ___ his crowning move (9)
23Eggs (3)
24Mycroft was Sherlock's (3)
25Sturmash's coal-owning partner (3)
26And so on (3)
29When last seen, Hosmer Angel wore trousers of this fabric (5)
32Dartmoor hill top (3)
33First name of Amberley's chess partner (3)
34The shadow was under it (3)
35It was mined in Cornwall (3)

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