CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 16,755
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ACROSS
1 Rural sporting venue run by occult eccentric (7,4)
9 Fashion model receiving a royal title (7)
10 Daub special board (7)
11 Kitty’s cooking utensil (3)
12 Agent for rockets in the west, reportedly (7)
13 Get shot of old
14 returning during exercises (7)
14 Wildebeest’s a bit of a flaming nuisance (3)
15 Luke-warm leader of party in parliament recalled (5)
17 Take money from girl joining society with it (5)
18 Cast small apparatus for expelling CO2 (5)
20 Ally trained to guard Old Faithful (5)
22 English artist’s period (3)
24 Celebrity on holiday repelled distant cousin? (7)
25 One who criticises rapper? (7)
26 Royal couple go astray (3)
27 Conductor’s picked up noisy toys (7)
28 Is a skeleton key used to enter this repository? (7)
29 Mix ample concrete to make site for gun (11)
DOWN
1 College studies Evita’s edited life story (10,5)
2 Rising air in US put off 500 flyers coming in (7)
3 Attract office worker and typist finally (5)
4 Hit number from the recent past (9)
5 Pal idly disturbed leaf on pond (4,3)
6 Bank defeats drab dilapidated guest house (3,3,9)
7 Tailless monkey bemused by grand Asian river (6)
8 Ambassador in top order (6)
16 Quietly, sea lion swims round unknown Pacific islands (9)
18 Somehow rescue stable (6)
19 Initially, girl simply altered her school outfit (7)
21 A little gander appears extremely eatable (4-3)
23 Displays wall hanging covering end of gallery (6)
25 Oslo unit changes New York with Yankee away (5)
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