BCC Bash March 2025

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Across
  1. 5. Opera in a new setting out doors (4,3)
  2. 7. Making a noise playing Ludo (4)
  3. 9. Bury five and the mobster at the break (8)
  4. 11. Words of wisdom in spin deliveries bowled (7)
  5. 13. He said 'shaken, not stirred' – timeless Bond! (8)
  6. 16. There is not much music in the capital of Arkansas (6,4)
  7. 18. Demonstrated how to get between two poles (5)
  8. 20. He's not crooked, just the opposite (6)
  9. 22. Ex-star replaced my actors playing small parts (6)
  10. 24. Tell what happens after close vote (7)
  11. 25. Where to find someone to speak to? (7)
  12. 26. Reduced fare when tide turns (4)
  13. 29. Bird burning nothing (8)
  14. 30. Composer takes taxi back to hospital (4)
  15. 32. A miner ordered to stay (6)
  16. 33. An assent from the assenters (4)
  17. 35. Fruit worker gangster is forced into car (10)
  18. 37. Embargo for former Yorkshire cricketeer
  19. 38. Some lifelong criminal (5)
Down
  1. 1. What's need for dinner, I get cooked? (10)
  2. 2. I am not indicating that Aussie (7)
  3. 3. Boxer dog is lit badly (8)
  4. 4. Road runs into nightclub maybe (5)
  5. 6. I'm turn in winding streets to find insects (8)
  6. 8. Eccentrics damage ceramics (9)
  7. 10. Coin once held by Indian Nababs
  8. 12. Gun gradually develops inside Rolls-Royce (8)
  9. 14. Care for business (7)
  10. 15. Bradman's famous duck (6)
  11. 17. Everlasting cross inside or outside (8)
  12. 19. No renewals, perhaps, in a Louisiana city
  13. 21. Scattered rain in the country (4)
  14. 23. Female warrior in river (6)
  15. 27. 151+1000+8, say, that's the spirit
  16. 28. Cricketer’s second ball gets wicket – England’s opener caught in both hands (6)
  17. 31. Top boss (4)
  18. 34. He's too agitated to calm down (6)
  19. 36. This cricketeer's dishes are delicious