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2 Care to work with a famous old
athletics club (8) 8 Can start with 3 down, taking a
shot close to the green (4) 13 Got a score without a 27 across,
initially, in the past (3) 14 At the end, pole arranged to leave
for a match (5) 15 Row over good player, of
course (5) 16 Did a key defender (or forward) have to focus on the midpoint? (6) 17 On the ground, trails after dark
horses (9) 20 Old director in the picture was a
champion ... (6) 23... and found a championship team back in the picture, in short (3) 25 Perform quickly in practice
match, perhaps (3,7) 27 Trainee left wit habit of profit,
commonly (7) 28 Have peace of mind through
increased experience (4) 29 May run about in one of the
services (4) 30 Did one take offence in the Ibrox
squad (5) 31 Old sailor posed with first 27
across (4) 32 After a party, states that all contributions are welcome (9)
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1 Hume varied, at the end, training
a champion on the ice (3,8) 3 It’ s hard to take one top player
into a low joint (3) 4 Do many have to play a form of
bingo? (5) 5 A wise man will get the message,
in the end (4) 6 Player’ s representative took a long time to get a good book (5) 7 Did one team from nottingham take a Huddersfield keeper to an English League Two team? (6,5) 8 Able to take first 27 across into
the family, maybe (4) 9 Keeping the cards close to one’ s
chest in Texas, obviously (7) 10 Look closely at a member of
Lords (4) 11 Players on the move at Bolton,
Wolves , etc (7) 12 Teacher may have started out at
Swindon, Ipswich and Reading (3) 18 Starter, as it were, had access to
the main course (6) 19 May need a password to register
with a top league (6) 21 G ads about like 11 down, with Roma being trained on Sunday (5) 22 Would this heavy weight hate
being in 30 across? (4) 24 Drug-takers forced to teach
students, initially (6) 26 Go a shore in a foreign country, in
a clandestine operation (4) 27 West indies legend in a us city
along with an artist (4)