CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Across
1. What to say to photographer about food rolls and snack (12)
8. Metal and one bit of soot found in empty bath (7) 9. Get happy — start smoking! (5,2)
11. Interpreter spoils normal start, dropping mike (10) 12. Somewhere to sit in Spanish car (4)
14. Hate jalopy following river (8)
16. Go back to plant seeds again, say (6)
17. Eliminate odd features of piazza in recession (3) 19. Catch accomplice almost heading back (6) 21. Embarrassed angry aid organisation (3,5)
24. Frank, old writer (4) 25. Order to troops a month after fast (5,5)
27. What’s under or inside overnight train? (7)
28. I fall, bankrupt, more or less in disgrace (3,4) 29. Cover, say, dicky heart during inferior spa treatment (12)
Down
1. Rogue in action falls (7) 2. English hunt managed to include one that’s horsey (10)
3. School cereal followed by unknown mush (8) 4. Graduate students to upset vote (6)
5. Sensational newspaper beginning to explore fashion (4)
6. Fanatical former soldiers capture first of tanks (7) 7. Rebellious Peter struggled with our boss (12)
10. Repair the lower step and throw clay on it (7,5) 13. Quietly, every male on island makes sweet dish (5,5)
15. Head of plant’s a listener (3) 18. Spot peer wandering around church at 4 (8) 20. Article about Times due to that? (7)
22. Mary produces boy in your novel (3,4)
23. Going north, Gloucester ruthlessly besieges tower (6)
26. Cut extra yard (4)