Crossword

7 clues share an absent definition. One clue has a superfluous word which identifies where you might find these 7 Across

1 Article once used to defend and counter the French right (7) 5 Claimed free treatment as a

result of this (7) 9 Call for help, accepting footballers must have places to relax (5) 10 Broker who may be

egomaniac at heart? (9) 11 Delicatessen expenses

incurred by sociable son (9) 12 Edge into empty theatre to

find subject of discussion (5) 13 Girl getting married needs

no diamonds (4) 15 and 1 down. Fools rejected

two men on board (8) 18 Fruit containing

revolutionary centre (8) 19 American garden that’s

good for Democrat (4) 22 Pair of musicians back in

Georgia (5) 24 Checks announced to identify unconventional types (9) 26 Austrian relocated across

the west of Germany (5,4) 27 Topping characteristic

American dish with curry (5) 28 Study one’s put back - that

is indefinitely (4,3) 29 Improve in French - opportunity with leader absent (7)

Down

1 see 15 (6) 2 Restaurant clubs celebrate

in song (9) 3 Girl seen on Circle Line? (5) 4 Converted miner is with

church talk of the past (9) 5 The majority of understated

fashions (5) 6 This may scrub text allowed

in River Island (6,3) 7 Temperature maintained by tailless celestial body in orbit (5) 8 Beam that’s essentially normal in telecommunications (6) 14 Criminalised, and thence

transported (9) 16 Train for film once in

America? (4,5) 17 Story of people importing

an expensive car (9) 20 Eliminates English jokes

on air (6) 21 This may be left and right

of centre, say (6) 23 Most of military detachment working for alliance (5) 24 Make a mess of missing the

N in horn (5) 25 Shape up, beginning to

hope for laughter (5)

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