The Irish Mail on Sunday

CRYPTIC CLUES

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Across

1 European copper on wrong road to the country (7) 5 Graduates harbour small thing about rice (7) 10 Strain if good man comes round (4) 11 Changing to oriental forbearanc­e (10) 12 Voice of doom first to follow morning call (8) 13 Ruler brings his own salad (6) 14 Pause around old sink (5) 16 Yield, having captured terribly inept predator (9) 19 Dance in courtyard by stream with energy (9) 21 Get annoyed, passenger having loud top (5) 23 Strong push on large implement (6) 25 Crept sneakily around incorporat­ed boundaries (8) 27 Self-discipline­d sailor to misuse organisati­on (10) 28 Contempora­ry with part-timer (4) 29 Puncture, getting another in Scottish river (7) 30 Dull prisoner is a goose (7)

Down

2 Fever caught on slope (5) 3 Last bit of writing, following verbally (9) 4 Tax review in salad dressing and soup (6) 6 Eccentric coy trait is an outrage (8) 7 Engineers assembled first at a certain distance (5) 8 Ambidextro­us person may be half its cast (3-6) 9 Fool and her top English dress (6) 15 Tangible counter masks painful sound (9) 17 Trifling with Frenchman is a form of clairvoyan­cy (9) 18 Tactful person gets qualificat­ion on time (8) 20 Left before a quiet pet influenced person (6) 22 Delete parts of score composed around noon (6) 24 Woman grasps object of prime importance (5) 26 Mark finds a butterfly (5)

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