CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

9 Sailor takes a bit of poetry home (5) 10 River rose erratically to provide a supply of water (9) 11 Simple and proper, I have to follow object (9) 12 Something of value, as arranged (5) 13 Learnt to work out regular payment (6) 14 Thinker about to mix beer with spirit (8) 16 Fled to develop shock treatment as sidetrack (7) 18 Wrong about soldiers showing anguish (7) 20 Indulged in such a way as to be deceiving (8) 22 Mother’s twitch is caused by sealant (6) 25 Children are an important matter (5) 26 Establish cuts make noise come out (9) 28 Remedy seen as angelic treatment (9) 29 Provoke first woman to accept average (5)

DOWN

1 Instrument is out of tune, but not initially (4) 2 Formal proposal produces some movement (6) 3 Cite lead, implausibly, as being fragile (8) 4 Teach skills in art management (5) 5 Utter nonsense about woman getting European attendant (9) 6 Where the batsman stands, about right to relax (6) 7 Prisoner has to wait for preparation of fruit (8) 8 I’m chattier about the manipulation of numbers (10) 13 Socialist officer describes an insect (3,7) 15 Tolerate simple instruction to relax (5,4) 17 Fellow led away to fight for a mineral (8) 19 One dares to go off and be sensible (8) 21 Dig up doctor at the border (6) 23 Journey too much for supporter of photography (6) 24 Parking, alternatively, next to church veranda (5) 27 Not as many lose their head in the jug (4)