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ACROSS

1 See Center Parc’s turned upside down when disorganis­ed (7) 5 What shop offers by way of footwear complete with original trimming (5) 11 Hire of a boat for crossing the ocean, perhaps, for foundation of internatio­nal associatio­n (8,7) 12 and 13 Not free, we hear, to present motion of water as high or low (4,5) 14 Can one be taken from his brother to sound the same? (4) 17 No nude is ruined when failing to be fastened (6) 18 Puts in cold storage with secondhand brownies (7) 20 Took charge of meeting and hid care with constructi­veness (7) 22 Second in command experience­s extreme pressure during shift (6) 24 Put down with introducti­on of criticism that’s full of holes (4) 25 Saint descending upon family when hard up (5) 26 Primates turn their backs on environmen­t agency (4) 29 Matthew, Mark and Luke, hearing of evil with measure of spirits, peg loss with conversion (8,7) 30 Herb loses it at 31 (5) 31 Limpidness that becomes mucky where initial informatio­n’s lacking (7)

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2 Canna coal nailed travelling from Fort William to Inverness (10,5) 3 Don’t start to goad relative (4) 4 Part I’ve designed that’s not for public consumptio­n (7) 6 Regular tie-back made of wood (4) 7 Outstandin­g piece of film seen over the break (3,5,3,4) 8 Guy volunteers to produce ray (5) 9 How to weigh up marketing after a hundred has been invested (6) 10 Cruel he’s not, simply naive (7) 15 Time I became a virgin in Paradise (5) 16 It’s true, adoption of record causes cries of pain, as ... (5) 19 ... no copper with record can act on vision (7) 21 Small antelope rounded up by two children (3-3) 22 One glad to be on the move to place in Ireland (7) 23 Is rap upheld by Zoroastria­n? (5) 27 Incentive that’s not true ruptures recovery (4) 28 Admits a Russian induction of ruler (4)

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