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cross word challenge 10918
cryptic
across
1 fail to counter a letter
7 in credit, in a roundabout way
8 British animal?
10 hurtfully forming one figure in moulded way
11 outcome sure to upset an officer
14 like the coloured end
16 miss Lee, the tea girl
17 were in jug
19 she may take one inhand
21 like a slab forming a foundation
22 birdlike fieldsman
23 a possible entrapment in time share
26 show pride in conscientious truthfulness
28 arrange to get information on location
29 opportunity to get a Chinese with some rice
30 one of a handy bunch
31 was it split in great ominousness
32 how to cry over split beer
33 bird with only one little sister for relatives

down
1 something grand to finish with
2 snakelike aircraft
3 a nameless fate meaning very little
4 free with one's political views
5 like aphordite, she'll have a bit of love before sunrise
6 lay down a condition
8 you may have spent them in Italy
9 like some far off schooldays
12 alias sol,note
13 there are 54 ways to live them
15 a passage from paisley
18 the value of an isle on the Thames
19 lad brought up on Indian food
20 any way that's negative
21 is his hook worth a look
22 one anticipates jumping
23 little ones may have no rims
24 a chance to pass on what you've learned
25 whence to come down to earth in port
26 South Island style of driving
27 bright boy put out of the race, so peevish
28 overweight and maybe apt to splutter
30 as for loading horses?

across
1 foreign language
2eastern
8 pith helmet
10 defeated
11 sullen
14 agent
16 manservant
17 hereditary unit
19 golf term
21 instruct
22 destined
23 nuisance
26 scornful expression
28 small amount
29 arrival,coming
30 martial art
31 school test
32 without charge,slang
33 stylus

down
1 car safety device
2 baby's soft shoe
3 metal money
4 get better
5 backless seat
6 precipitation
8 mountain lake
9 high spirits,vitality
12 beam of light
13 dispatched
15 tribal badge
18 antelope
19 however
20 deity
21 discolour
22 charge
23 exhibit or flaunt
24 Dutch cheese
25 from that time
26 Brazilian dance
27 turn out,expel
28 levy
30 eager

EU leaders agree on covid-19 recovery deal
European leaders for the first time on Tuesday agreed to link payment of EU funds to a member state with respect for the bloc's legal norms - although Poland and Hungary insisted they had blocked tougher planned measures.
A hard - fought deal on a 750 - billion -euro coronavirus recovery package and the EU's seven - year budget includes powers to cut funding from countries that breach so - called " rule of law" standards.
the final text is a compromise between Northern countries that wanted all money stopped to governments that break the rules, and Hungary and Poland, which are under investigation for allegedly undermining European legal standards and democratic values.
Poland and Hungary had threatened to veto the EU's entire budget package if there was any linkage between funding and rule of law but, as the talks continued through a fourth night, a deal was finally reached. under the deal, the European Commission would propose punitive measures to the EU Council.
Any cuts would have to be approved by a qualified majority of those member states. this would require a vote of 55% of the EU countries representing 65% of its total population,which would make it easier for targeted governments to build a blocking minority of supportive capitals.