CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

NO.626

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CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 9 Dupe has right to some seafood (5) 10 Also teach about getting husband in pain (9) 11 Sailor follows list to get seasoning (5,4) 12 Returning as doctor has a dance (5) 13 Musical gear moved around London area (6) 14 Enjoy wild steed being taken in (8) 16 Moaning endlessly about large being very small (7) 18 Declare approval and conclude rose arrangement (7) 20 Trust in souvenir having a new point (8) 22 Credit goes to Egyptian deity for intensely difficult time (6) 25 Beam initially spanning distance (5) 26 Top performer to go towards passenger ship (9) 28 Unintentionally convey organisation of great help (9) 29 Notice a chronometer (5) Down 1 Drunkard admitting parking location (4) 2 Sailor back to break blue trinket (6) 3 Actually ropes off pub outside (2,6) 4 Finally doesn’t finish a picture book (5) 5 Vessel, a kind of ship (9) 6 Pursued for being pure, by the sound of it (6) 7 Mark has Tim returning with one Eastern weapon (8) 8 Consider the French ship, come what may (10) 13 Green toy is sent out of kindness (10) 15 External spot for gloomy chief (9) 17 Numerous plum tile variations (8) 19 Let cider be transported in a hazardous state (8) 21 Injure in return for greeting no-good European (6) 23 Higher-ranking Spaniard around island (6) 24 Hiding place for money overheard (5) 27 Sea captain loses head in scrape (4)