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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 It looks like the military is involved (10)
6 The highlight of the Nativity (4)
10 Sailors from Epsom, perhaps (5)
11 It has a back-breaking job keeping down vermin (9)
12 So not out very often (8)
13 Pole taking meat around for sale? (5)
15 To economise is of no avail (7)
17 Became very angry when attacked (7) 19 When knocked out, Webster is spread out (7) 21 Well up in colour (7)
22 Memorial of old priest outwardly Roman Catholic (5)
24 Reason it out with a foreign girl (8)
27 The claims set out by one seeking gold (9) 28 I object to two hundred going to a place of pilgrimage (5)
29 Condiment makes many sick (4)
30 Vocal stall-holders (10)
DOWN
1 Part of a window dresser’s flamboyant attire (4)
2 Mother dawdles and wastes the doctor’s time (9)
3 See a donkey caught in this (5)
4 The spirit possessed by us produces gossip (7) 5 Appeals emotionally for a loan (7)
7 I go round an Italian city (5)
8 Some steps that have to be suspended (4,6) 9 Stop, don’t switch on again! (5,3)
14 But it doesn’t stretch to music (6,4)
16 Hear case involving listeners’ complaints (8) 18 Growing row over a speaker (9)
20 Inclined to sting, perhaps, as whips may be (7) 21 American politician who could resort to treason (7)
23 Drinking place not far from home (5)
25 About to sum up the brother of Romulus (5) 26 Star makes a comeback in ‘The Renegades’ (4)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Dead end (5,5)
6 Group of three (4) 10 Motionless (5)
11 Spin-off (2-7)
12 Revere (8)
13 Deposit for safekeeping (5) 15 Absence of government (7) 17 Defamatory gossip (7) 19 Colonist (7)
21 To animate (7)
22 Corn (5)
24 Boring menial work (8) 27 Plateau (9)
28 Experiment (5)
29 Profound (4)
30 Naively idealistic (6-4)
DOWN
1 Luxuriate (4)
2 Travelling around (9)
3 Make detailed research (5) 4 Collection of books (7)
5 Directly stated (7)
7 Habitual series of calls (5)
8 Not functioning properly (2,3,5) 9 Count of those present (4,4) 14 Prescient (3-7)
16 Kitchen strainer (8)
18 Variety (9)
20 Glowing (7)
21 South American country (7) 23 Saunter (5)
25 Brave and determined (5) 26 Ran away (4)