CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be date-stamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls/texts must be received by 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, exc NI. Terms apply, see Page 58.
ACROSS
1 Disapproving, EU ban flavour that’s suspect (12)
8 Infant ingests one instead of old sprat, say (7)
9 Second-class teams consuming energy as well (7)
11 I quit playing in club band and writing reviews (10)
12 Bird kept inside with insects initially (4)
14 Service inebriated crowd? (4,4)
16 In which to find mouse intestines used as strings (6)
17 Propeller or article caught in it (3)
19 Mad uncle Tom’s primarily glowing (6)
21 Reportedly cut viva for such a thesis (8)
24 Different English university (4)
25 Bless prisoner with a secret liquid (10)
27 Spars store individual strong drinks (7)
28 First woman holds travel stamp back, equivocating (7)
29 Tongue-tied irate lunatic’s flustered (12)
DOWN
1 Ruin a Parisian party, spilling gin (7)
2 In fluent translation movie offers satisfaction (10)
3 Taking in India, five tours wrecked old genius (8)
4 Suave old pope beginning to expire (6)
5 A contribution to funeral song on top of that (4)
6 Putting money in bank for somewhere to live (7)
7 Dairy farmers perhaps? They own shares (12)
10 Hot sailors in these in their vessels at sea? (12)
13 Californian city’s Xmas visitor swaps American for artist (5,5)
15 Miserable U.S. lawyer’s upright (3)
18 French painter cut first of bride’s belongings (8)
20 Bolster cousin worried about husband (7)
22 Achieve increase covering each line (7)
23 Snooty type brought up perfect small tree (6)
26 Storyteller raised bar (4)
NEED A CLUE?
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