JM Cryptic 11/07
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Across

1.  Clue  : A group with an article forms a river. (5)
    Answer: GANGA.
    Logic : A group is a GANG, an article is A and GANGA is a river.
           
3.  Clue  : Copy like a chimpanzee. (3)
    Answer: APE.
    Logic : APE means copy. A chimpanzee is an APE.

5.  Clue  : A wrong gas can actually hang down. (3)
    Answer: SAG.
    Logic : SAG is an anagram of gas. SAG means to hang down.

6.  Clue  : Squeeze the place Jantar Mantar was printed. (5)
    Answer: PRESS.
    Logic : Squeeze is another word for press. Jantar Mantar was 
	    printed in a press.

11. Clue  : Euclid initially added to the ratio of the circumference
	    to the radius of a circle and cooked up a dessert. (3)
    Answer: PIE.
    Logic : Euclid initially is E. Added to PI makes PIE which is a
            dessert.

12. Clue  : Hurried in Iran. (3)
    Answer: RAN.
    Logic : RAN means hurried. RAN is contained in Iran.

16. Clue  : A game where he follows the first of the clues and
	    is tailed by the secret service. (5) 
    Answer: CHESS.
    Logic : CHESS is a game. The first of the clues is C and the 
            secret service is SS.

18. Clue  : I am merely a small example and nothing. (3)
    Answer: EGO.
    Logic : I is EGO. EG is the short form of example and O is nothing.
            

19. Clue  : A decade in Tendulkar. (3)
    Answer: TEN.
    Logic : A decade is TEN. It is contained in Tendulkar.

20. Clue  : Mix lager to make it big. (5)
    Answer: LARGE.
    Logic : LARGE is an anagram of lager. It means big.
   

Down

1.  Clue  : An interval spent rewriting the page without its end. (3)
    Answer: GAP.
    Logic : GAP is an interval. It is an anagram of page without e.

2.  Clue  : A donkey preserved in glass. (3)
    Answer: ASS.
    Logic : A donkey is an ASS. It is contained in glass.

3.  Clue  : Getting older ? Reduce your rage. (3)
    Answer: AGE.
    Logic : To AGE is to get older. It is obtained by reducing rage.

4.  Clue  : Sounds are distorted ? Get a hearing aid. (3)
    Answer: EAR.
    Logic : EAR is an anagram of are. It helps us hear.

7.  Clue  : Utter tripe without a junction. But ready to eat. (4)
    Answer: RIPE.
    Logic : RIPE is tripe without t which is a junction. Ripe fruit 
            are ready to eat.

8.  Clue  : Sounds like a surrender. It is the begining. (4)
    Answer: SEED.
    Logic : SEED sounds like cede which means surrender. A SEED is the 
	    begining.

9.  Clue  : Four hindi mixers make the top of a Mughal doorway. (4)
    Answer: ARCH.
    Logic : ARCH is an anagram of char which means four in hindi.
	    The top of Mughal doorways often have arches.

10. Clue  : Workers toiling in the sun to get tans ? (4)
    Answer: ANTS.
    Logic : ANTS are workers. It is an anagram of tans.

13. Clue  : A painting in a rice particle. (3)
    Answer: ART.
    Logic : A painting is ART. It is contained in particle.

14. Clue  : Then, the last part is a bird. (3)
    Answer: HEN.
    Logic : HEN is the last part of then. It is a bird.

15. Clue  : Half a column for a mountain feature. (3)
    Answer: COL.
    Logic : A COL is a mountain feature. It is half a column.

16. Clue  : Look in 8 dn. (3)
    Answer: SEE.
    Logic : Look is to SEE. It is contained in seed which is 
            the answer to 8 dn.