Complete Clue List
Across
1. Busier on sea? : Quite likely in this South American port (6,5)
7. Prim red dean : Is formally rebuked (11)
8. Greets : Several white herons (6)
9. Note : Providing the pitch of a musical sound (4)
11. Slip : Into this speech defect (4)
12. Cliché : For the chief ingredient of chewing gum (6)
15. Decent slain : In secret and for illicit reasons (11)
16. Resist pests : They were cruel to Cinderella (11)
Down
1. A berg! : Avoid it with this large boat (5)
2. Is temperate? : Perhaps not an apt description of New York's nickname (6,5)
3. Oat pie : Contains a narcotic drug? (6)
4. A bar : For this person from the Middle East? (4)
5. I avoid crate : As it contains a very harmful form of energy (11)
6. Edges : Formed with this grass-like plant (5)
10. His set : For a dissertation (6)
11. Slack! : There's something missing (5)
13. Seven? : No, more likely two, four or eight! (5)
14. Dies : When Caesar was assassinated? (4)