Lattice Seven: The Political Edition

crossword3d · 7×7×7 · 48 entries

Grids — one sheet per Z layer

Z 1

123
45
678
9
1011
121314

Z 2

1516
17
18

Z 3

192021
2223
242526
27

Z 4

Z 5

282930
3132
33
34

Z 6

Z 7

353637
38
39
40
41

A square marked also carries a letter of an Away answer running through the sheets.

Clues

Across

1Corruption still does, when yaps are rearranged (4) (4)
6Earl, shaken up, turns out genuine (4) (4)
10Choose the chosen few (5) (5)
12Dad's cry of pain yields a fruit (5) (5)
19Trains the battle bus fleet (7) (7)
22Consumed by the Senate (3) (3)
24Summit group, before Russia was shown the door (5) (5)
27No longer, as in "we don't do that ___" (7) (7)
28Web suffix for Pete, who will run against you (7) (7)
31Prop up a horse, badly, where the land runs out (5) (5)
33Party thrown in Boston harbour (3) (3)
34They demonstrate, raining on the parade (7) (7)
35Super shake-up of the public finances (5) (5)
39Alter the timetable and it gets dealt with then (5) (5)
40Sovereign waters — seven of them, allegedly (4) (4)
41Small hollow in the constituency (4) (4)

Down

3By means the minister would rather not detail (7) (7)
4Tired after a reshuffle, and put in the dock (5) (5)
5Invent the composition of a cabinet (6) (6)
9Filibuster's aim: tops in disarray (4) (4)
19Cockscomb, a social flower in bloom (7) (7)
20School that opted out of council control (7) (7)
21Look ahead, as no five-year plan ever does (5) (5)
23Urge on, or lob at a candidate (3) (3)
29Veal tee, served up, raises one to the Lords (7) (7)
30Beside Labour's leader, things fit to eat (7) (7)
31Withers, as a mandate does (5) (5)
32Scrap left after the state banquet (3) (3)
35Pleads with energy, and is happy with the outcome (7) (7)
36Lean on, as the whips would have you (4) (4)
37The ire, stirred, offers one or the other (6) (6)
38Peak of a party's popularity, or its coat of arms (5) (5)

Away

2Deliver, unlike most pledges (7) (7)
3Answers back at Prime Minister's Questions (6) (6)
6Lures, corruptly — and governs the lot of them (5) (5)
7Last stand you are told to remember (5) (5)
8More sullen, post-reshuffle (7) (7)
10Nurses shuffled round Europe's leader — that guarantees it (7) (7)
11"___, dear boy" — seven, with time, in a muddle (6) (6)
12Settle up with bread: the list of who's been bought (7) (7)
13Established, unlike most claims at the despatch box (6) (6)
14Teeny majority (6) (6)
15Emissions limit on frozen assets, melting anyway (6) (6)
16One who blocks the signal — a filibuster of the airwaves (6) (6)
17Committee picks (6) (6)
18Spades reshuffled, and the bill went through (6) (6)
25Serious place to end a political career (5) (5)
26Reveals what the division lobby counter does (5) (5)