CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Mount men misused as a memorial (8)

Graph shows how it can make about five better (5) Dealing with a joint when working as a sculptor (7)

Got things together as one felt way around Uruguay capital (7) Poetically black coming out of the bonfire (4) Stripped of cover, need dud to be replaced (7)

Show of modesty unusual in NCOs? Yes! (7) Half-size room, second half of which goes for nothing (4) Set of tableware shows where working people eat (7) Allocated a thousand for tie one left inside (7) Fifty-one on the motorway, it being the most one can do (5) Taken out of writing screed on revision (8)

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Made fun of one for making me confused by dock (6) Barely make indicator at end of trail in New York (8) Adult male has one in a cockfighting match (4)

Kept going on at poor mount with pike (6)

What a rider may have to cut short (4)

You and I and misdeed that got rid of unwanted plants (6) Crowd starts to wonder how man was made a king (7) Stop it if it never turns up in platinum (7)

One on board will go straight to the gold (8)

Make it pucker like a weed in the cornfield (6) Having no spouse, run! (6)

With no hesitation, disorder might become squalid (6) What-d’ye-call-it, given a mean twist (4)

A man’s deep voice looks fishy (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Distaff 5. Scholar 9. Eliminate 10. Runic 11. Meditate

12. Cohere 14. Treasurer 16. Ionic 17. Bream 19. Nectarine

21. Reason 22. Scratchy 26. Shire 27. Pronounce 28. Shelter

29. Suspend

1. Dream 2. Swindle 3. Agist 4. Flattering 5. Smew

6. Harmonica 7. Lantern 8. Recherché 13. Precocious

14. Tuberoses 15. Somnolent 18. Examine 20. Incense 23. Atoms

24. Yield 25. Spar

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