CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES Across

8 Dog gets vegetable, by the sound of it (6) 9 Point like this to get reporters a coffee (8) 10 Tire a European national supporter (8) 11 Ask around, getting a couple of directions around Wichita (6) 12 Each of two has right to some food (5) 13 Enjoys temporary living quarters (4) 14 Starting point is without moral principles (4) 16 Theseus’s significant other song met sad end (7) 18 Sense affair has doubled energy (7) 20 Daughter ruined his recipe (4) 21 Unusual interest about fluff (4) 22 Firm about socialist beliefs (5) 25 Moving to cave, from one A to the next (6) 27 Linseed used on small sloth (8) 28 Chap gets to train African animal (8) 29 Gaius Julius has a salad (6)

Down

1 A hat for a delivery man (6) 2 Escape on way to elevated course (6,4) 3 Feel depressed underneath (5) 4 Tried cunningly to involve me in fault (7) 5 Mouthpieces of the cycling fraternity? (9) 6 Study to get answer from head of faculty (4) 7 Hit man finds couple of fools at home (8) 14 He works in tower, and sounds familiar (4-6) 15 Medicine somehow considered as angelic (9) 17 Croatian ran off to find cover (8) 19 Allow space to put a heading (7) 23 Dreary maids playing by lake (6) 24 Singular deficiency, being negligent (5) 26 Assistant gets help, so to speak (4)