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ACROSS 2 Pass over with speed to team events on the track (5,5) 8 It can take a very long time to get into the only match of the day (3) 10 Sport organised by for me rf 1

champion (5) 13 Be right in front Kitty, perhaps, at an English Premiership team (9) 14 Attracted to some areas of st

Andrews (4) 16 Start to he appraise on a former

F1 champion (5) 17 It may be the next challenge to

Mo Farah, in the long run (8) 18 Get round in regulation, of

course (3) 19 Take in a night to the theatre (3) 20 Second-placed in 19 across, like

a former Essex player (4) 22 Get ready to start at the track

(3) 23 Tie involving close rivals, and

not only in central England (5,5) 27 Heap excessive praise on line

for composer (5) 31 Had even less time to go than at

the 11th hour (4,6) 32 Stops trainers, say, using more complicated systems, at the end (5) 33 A vet took one off to popular

musical (5) 34 Controversial player trying to get back into the court (9)

DOWN 1 Rich rewards for leading lights

on the track, for instance (4,6) 3 Get some latitude for old Man

City striker on the road (6) 4 Pass through the college

grounds, early on (3) 5 Wide royal house came first for

top England seamer (6,5) 6 Left an artist behind with some

old Italian money (4) 7 Always have time for an old

tennis star (5) 9 Get round at speed, and talk at

great length about it (5) 10 Water sport arranged at the end

of 13 across (4) 11 Describe, in the intro, a new

racehorse, maybe (4) 12 Down in them out hat st ran ra er, Aberdeen and Dundee, initially (3) 15 Make false pretences, and end

up in a total shambles (4) 21 Abstainers can still compete in

some road races (3) 22 Costa managed to include one from north of the Border, poetically (6) 24 Was it the heyday of the the sportscar? It was for one at least (3) 25 Artists had to thank a cult

follower, in short (5) 26 Did she sometimes carry the

banner for the team? (4) 28 Took me back to Maine to find a

popular novel (4) 29 Left a second player, initially,

with a speech defect (4) 30 May have to step over some

domestic animals (4)