Level 1357 Solution

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Solution Grid

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Across

1. DIMINUENDO
  • Faint suggestion for audience becoming less loud
  • Inane insinuation voiced increasingly quietly
  • Obscure allusion picked up, getting harder to pick up
  • Instruction to make less noise in bars
  • Musical instruction gets unintelligent one undone, confused
3. PROTESTED
  • Voiced one's opposition
  • Expressed opposition through action or words
  • Kicked
  • Professional put through paces showed dissent
  • In favour of having been tried, but complained
6. GRATEFULLY
  • With thanks.
  • *Shred every last bit of in the kitchen?
7. CHECKMATE
  • Grandmaster's last word ... and what the last word in 17-, 24-, 36- and 52-Across can be
  • Carefully review a crew member's work?
  • Last word in a cerebral game
  • Board finish
  • Game-ending declaration
8. STORMY
  • Tempestuous
  • Tumultuous
  • Turbulent
  • Inclement
  • Far from calm

Down

2. MERINGUE
  • Pie topping
  • Lemon pie topping
  • Frothy pie topping
  • Frothy stuff
  • Lemon ___ pie
4. ASYMMETRY
  • Difference between two sides
  • Feature of much modern architecture
  • 1984 movie with a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with 'The'
  • Feature of this puzzle that's "fixed" by a literal reading of four squares
  • Imbalance between two sides
5. PACKETS
  • Sugar servings at a coffee bar
  • Sugar servings
  • Couriers' deliveries
  • Loads of tin vessels
  • Takeout ketchup, usually

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