CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
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8 Temporarily take Robert back with argument (6)
9 Top stylist has musical understanding (8)
10 Singer and daughter with strange bit of kit (4,4)
11 Got the redevelopment for part of the city (6)
12 Needs arrangement to be tightly packed (5)
13 Mother has say – that’s excellent (4)
14 Soup not right for the two of them (4)
16 Duped about getting a junction filled in (7)
18 Reach solution about old liberal complaint (7)
20 Stare at torn page (4) 21 Republican buy-out in stone (4)
22 Orals set about a star (5) 25 Question doesn’t start ably, involved space station (6) 27 Company expert takes chap to front line underground (8)
28 Water feature, discovered unfinished, ain’t fixed (8)
29 Strip off, securing comedian’s first text (6)
Down
1 Adulation, putting silver in residence (6)
2 An informant and a traitor, but a harmless creature (5,5)
3 Lots of insects are small and affectionate (5)
4 Room for fossil behind church (7) 5 Important to head of oafish harpy rewriting history (9)
6 Dog left to have a look (4) 7 Autocrat expects secretary to record his every word (8) 14 Passenger’s invoice for food available (4,2,4)
15 Compassion before defeat showing sign of life (9)
17 Stupid person not backing end of food chain (8)
19 Sailors against delaying first leave (7)
23 Receive mushroom with wild cat circling (6)
24 Strict husband developed rash (5)
26 Advanced fast (4)
QUICK CLUES across
8 Take temporarily (6) 9 Grooming accessory (8) 10 Percussion instrument (4,4) 11 Deprived urban area (6) 12 Thick (5)
13 Excellent (4)
14 The two of them (4) 16 Modernised (7) 18 Infectious disease (7) 20 Stare open-mouthed (4) 21 Gemstone (4)
22 Relating to the sun (5) 25 First US space station (6) 27 Exposed surface in a mine (8)
28 Water feature (8) 29 Written text (6)
Down
1 Respect shown publicly (6) 2 Harmless Eurasian reptile (5,5)
3 Group of insects (5)
4 Large room (7)
5 Life story (9)
6 Leer at (4)
7 Tyrant (8)
14 Menu (4,2,4)
15 Pulse (9)
17 Microscopic marine organisms (8)
19 Leave hurriedly (7) 23 Consent to receive (6) 24 Severe (5)
26 Period preceding Easter (4)