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A Fine Collection

by Richard Sabey
for Sandy Kozinn

Answers ust be odified, before being written in the diagra, in the sae anner as the clues and this preable have been. Length nubers are the lengths of the undaaged answers.

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40 41 42 43 44

45 46 47 48

49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62

63 64 65 66 67 68

69 70 71 72

73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81

82 83 84 85

86 87 88

Across

1. Adair had won uch oney fro hi in gabling (6)

6. First nae of iss Pinto, the daughter of a governent official at anaos (5)

10. Venucci was connected with this urderous group (5)

14. Having copassion or sypathy, as the expression of Sir Jaes Saunders showed as he told Esworth that his condition was not leprosy (6)

15. Hot water and one is good edicine (5)

16. Aused expression with which Holes read Dr. Arstrong's letter; ... (5)

17. ... Dr. Arstrong had earlier et Holes and said he hoped his carriage did not ___ Holes's bicycle (6)

18. Jacky Ferguson ight have addressed his other so (4)

19. At one point, Holes looked as if the Abbey Grange ystery was as hudru to hi as a case of this ight be to a specialist edic (7)

21. "When a an ___ upon a crie, he is orally guilty of any other crie which ay spring fro it." (7)

24. For of play which relies on oveent and expression, not speech (4)

25. La Rothiere's hoe was in ___ ansions (7)

28. Sound that ight be ade by the anial on a stool beside artha (4)

30. When Watson was seeking soe, it was thanks to Staford eeting hi that he was introduced to Holes (5)

34. Eetic edicine; graduate (4)

35. Edges; Holes saw fro these parts of the soles of Watson's shoes ary Jane's clusiness in scraping ud fro the (4)

37. Ipressions at Boscobe Pool showed Holes that the criinal ust be so, for he liped (4)

39. Flat-topped steep-sided ountain (4)

40. South Aerican anial like an 83ac, but only sounding like the onk Holes spent soe days with in Tibet (5)

42. 30ac for train passengers, such as one fro which Cadogan West was thrown, as Holes surised; etaphorically, r. Lucas kept his life in water-tight ones, so did not expect a woan to coe to urder hi (12)

45. Aong; central (___-Devon, for exaple) (3)

47. eals for Tonga and Sahara King were this (4)

48. Tree entioned in the usgrave Ritual (3)

49. ighty city, as London is, with its any teeing illions (11)

54. It powered r. Sith's boat (5)

58. Holes deduced that ary Sutherland used a typewriter fro one on each of her sleeves (4)

59. The an Watson saw on the tor iprudently stood with this rising behind hi (4)

60. Lucy's ount was one, but Jefferson Hope and John Ferrier ounted horses (4)

62. 67ac; the announceent Watson took fro Wilson ystified hi and ade hi ask "What can it ___?" (4)

63. Each coin "curdo" claied to have inted was genuinely worth 10 of these (5)

65. Waved hairstyle ade using cheical treatent of the hair, as Violet de erville appears to have in the illustration by Elcock (4)

67. Watson saw that r. Aberley was such a an; he grubled about the cost of any things (7)

69. Failiar ter for a note, such as oriarty wrote in a book where he had scribbled soe dates (4)

71. Holes surised that since the oent that r. ___ back was turned, Bannister released the an who was hiding in the bedroo. (6'1)

73. an who knocked out a canine (7)

77. Holes saw in the irror that the occupant of rs. Warren's roo was not one (3)

78. First nae of one of the Four (7)

82. You ight sell this on the Sussex Downs (5)

83. Ruinant whose back is huped, as Henry Wood's was (5)

85. Bartholoew and Thaddeus were like this Zodiac sign (6)

86. Holes wrote "at about a quarter to one on Tuesday orning an attept was ade". This was no istake; he wanted old Cunningha to ___ to the note (5)

87. The vesta Holes found in the hollow was so, just like the hollow, which is how Gregory issed it (5)

88. Ferrier gained this fro his copanions so fast that he was given fertile land for his far (6)

Down

1. "Populus e sibilat, at ___ plaudo Ipse doi siul ac nuos conteplor in arca" ("People hiss at e, but at hoe I a pleased with yself when I look at the oney in y strong-box") (4)

2. Shoscobe Prince would trot out each orning to the carriage to get one (4)

3. Altaont was a false one (4)

4. Holes knew unro valued his pipe, as he had had it ___ twice: in the ste and in the aber (6)

5. Holes could ___ any facts, as they were not jubled up in his brain-attic with luber of every sort (8)

6. Thanks to Holes's false one and Watson's soke-rocket, Holes saw where Irene hid the photograph (5)

7. The 11dn of the 11dn, aybe (6)

8. "Dio ___, you have killed hi!" Eilia uttered (3)

9. ass of unkept hair, as on Cora (4)

10. For of address Dixie used to Holes (6)

11. A thin 87ac one showed Holes that the edieval "cow-shoes" had been recently used (4)

12. Half the distance across the oor fro King's Pyland to apleton (4)

13. Surnae of r. Douglas's butler (4)

20. oran's, with firears, was unatched in the Eastern Epire (3)

22. Lestrade thought that a an who would sash iages of the Eperor would be so (5)

23. Copensation; oriarty was so adirable in his anageent and self-effaceent, that, for those words Watson had said of hi, he could hale hi to a court and eerge with his year's pension as one for his wounded character (8)

25. Violet de erville reained so, despite Kitty Winter's anger (4)

26. ycroft's 30ac were in Pall ___ (4)

27. A ountain lion (4)

29. When Holes entioned an east wind coing, Watson thought he eant the weather, which was so at that oent (4)

31. Blood on a sill in The Bar of Gold was a bad one, that r. St. Clair was dead, for there was little proise that he could save hiself by swiing (4)

32. Of the Bruce-Partington Plans, the three issing ones were the ___ iportant (4)

33. "___ not a shark", Holes said, eaning r. erton (3'1)

36. Of aateur sport, Holes rearked "it ight be worth ___ while to get at a player as the ruffians of the turf get at a race-horse. (7'1)

38. To apportion justice, as was done to Jefferson Hope at a tribunal (4)

41. Such boats are faster than that carrying the KKK en, so each victi got the pips set on hi before being urdered (4)

43. Holes described Jonathan Sall to Jones as having soe skin issing fro this part of his body (4)

44. Holes and Watson rabled in the Park one spring day, as the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon these trees (4)

46. Esworth told Jiie that he feared being dragged to his unless he lived in isolation (4)

49. With honey fro his bees, and soe water, alt and yeast, Holes could have ferented this drink (4)

50. Charlington Hall looked so to Holes and Watson (4)

51. "I can't ___ bricks without clay" Holes cried ipatiently, having not uch data about iss Hunter's eployent offer (4)

52. Holes thought he ight use soe of this and cereony, when he created a false 6dn and betrayed Oldacre (4)

53. Holes retrieved Sir Henry's issing boot fro this (5)

55. Griesby Roylott suffered a long one (4)

56. When Holes and Gregson entered The yrtles, they saw the reains of one, and a suit of Japanese 41dn (4)

57. Holes rearked that, when he had deciphered "A HERE ABE SLANEY", he had so ___ letters... (4)

61. ...fro that one that he ight ove on to the second one (7)

64. isleadingly appeared; for exaple, to r. Sith, Holes ___ to be dying (6)

66. In a black ood, Carey ___ about the house (6)

68. A policean thought that soeone had put a hot net on cPherson, the better-arked points being where these crossed (6)

70. To cut grass with a achine (3)

72. As befits a 77ac; ilverton, fearful coward, was not so, but his killer odestly affired that her husband had been so (5)

73. ercer was the second one (4)

74. "Woen are never to be entirely trusted -- not the best of ___" (4)

75. One day, John Ferrier cae back to his far and found two en in his sitting-roo, of who one was whistling one (4)

76. The stone landed on the jellyfish, one edge of yellow ebrane flapped, and this oozed out fro below the stone (4)

79. When it cae to docuenting the events at Reichenbach, Watson's duty was to ___ no detail. (4)

80. "Le auvais gout ___ au crie." (4)

81. "Blessington" knew that neesis was a atter of this, but it cae early because Biddle, Hayward and offat were released before doing all of theirs (4)

84. Devil's-foot root fues ade ortier's brothers so (3)

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