Otago Daily Times

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1 Veteran with million is used in advance to make a deal (10)

6 Remove skin from soft fish (4)

9 Pull girl back, one who’s behind the rest (7)

10 Spotted article prefaced by one of the family (7)

12 Social workers holding unusual gathering of nice, elderly people (8)

13 An integrated computer system retrieved first of several historical records (6)

15 A lamp’s redesigned with ionised gas (6)

16 Arab cooked meat for man of the bible (7)

18 Cover a quantity of drugs (3)

19 Be unduly critical returning metal tool (3-4)

21 Blackmail letters typed in text or transcript (6)

24 Pull out nitrogen in raising agent (6)

25 Variety of edam at end of spring is skilfully produced (4-4)

27 What consumers do right inside the cinema (7)

28 Gets boat repaired in shipyard primarily (7)

29 Accomplish­ed individual finishing 500 (4)

30 Dazzling one travels with little money (10)

DOWN

1 Stock of wine retailer given an airing (6)

2 Silver discovered in rocky claim is wonderful (7)

3 Disagreed with new layout in leisure publicatio­n (7,6)

4 Left unbalanced rackets requiring a re-string? (4,6)

5 Complacent dentist may examine these using a mirror (4)

7 English trees should be some relief for sightseers (7)

8 Isolated one’s kidnapped by mole in disguise (8)

11 Excited scout rang about recent compliment­s (13)

14 Deprecator altered document electronic­ally (4-6)

17 Pompous one left and relocated (8)

20 Take advantage of missile sent up ahead of time (5,2)

22 Appreciate serial reschedule­d close to lunchtime (7)

23 Cosmetic preparatio­n picked up by model goes off quickly (4,2)

26 Judge, at this point, needs to be listened to (4)

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