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ACROSS
1 Supplied PR video edited by daughter (8) 5 Accent over half of Scots employ? Definitely not (6) 9 Wartime combat, one between boxers? (8) 10 They support second-class events at Ascot (6) 12 Stake in Australian territory (4) 13 Wine supplier’s big mistake in Times (10) 15 A career lady’s managed to stock new ranges of diaries (8,5)
19 A wet exotic plant gets put away, wrinkled and brown? (7-6)
23 Cook studies this golf course involving stars (10)
25 A lot of fliers returning
at a great distance (4) 28 A set of harmonious notes announced treaty (6)
29 Grow about 50 for the first time in estate (8)
30 Mum is reversing
fast (6)
31 Lacking resistance, grew smaller and expired (8)
DOWN
1 Hawker developed laryngitis to some extent (6)
2 Should Hugo broadcast
on time? (5)
3 Big bird is browsing in
swamp primarily (4)
4 Rank and age constrain
revolutionary lecturer (7)
6 Horse guards a rare
tree producing pods (5)
7 New car in tune?
Not sure (9)
8 Writer, for instance, lives
in English Street (8)
11 Put money on a star that’s
not the brightest (4)
14 Pretentious stuff mounted
in photograph albums (4) 15 College girl in charge of nearly everything traditional (9)
16 Pat’s a swimmer (3)
17 Is there still one roaming
in the Himalayas? (4)
18 Lagoon’s spread over wicket causing
errors on pitch (3,5)
20 Road bypassing
fashionable Peel (4)
21 Europeans host new
service all at once (2,5)
22 China fanatic steals
third of porcelain (6)
24 Repeat broadcast underran
and sadly was cancelled (5) 26 Notes accommodation
in blocks perhaps (5)
27 Call eastern bloke over (4)