SOLUTION TO CRYPTIC No. 778

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1. Swathe - anagram 4. Alderman - AL (=Alabama) + derma- + (magazi)n(e) 10. Aggravate - Ag (=silver) + grate around VA (=Virginia) 11. Basic - B,A (vitamins) + sic(ken) 12. Scrawny - raw between SC (=South Carolina) and NY (=New York) 13. Scarlet - scale around R (=right) + T (=time) 14. Tarry - tar + r(ock)y 16. Ancients - anagram 19. Stranded - anagram 21. Theme - the around em (a printer’s measurement) 23. Chelsea - (Mu)ch else a(ffected) 25. Crumpet - C (=cold) + rum + pet 27. Radon - Ra (an Egyptian god) + Don 28. Relapsing - relap (reversal of paler) + sing 29. Domicile - docile around MI (=Michigan) 30. Sterns - S (=small) + terns 1. Sparsity - anagram 2. Auger - ager (anagram) around U (=union) 3. Headway - anagram 5. Leeks - lee + KS (reversal of SK =Saskatchewan) 6. Embrace - (m)em(o) + Br. (=British) + ace 7. Mistletoe - mist + (a)l(o)e + toe 8. Nicety - anagram 9. Maryland - M (=masculine) + aryland (anagram) 15. Rotterdam - dam after rotter 17. Codicils - (sho)c(ks) + odicils (anagram) 18. Vestiges - vest + .I.G. (reversal of G.I.) + E,S (=east,south) 20. Arsenic - (reht)ar senic(idem) - reversal 21. Trumpet - trumet (anagram) arpound P (=power) 22. Scared - scar + E (=east) + d (=daughter) 24. April - apl (anagram) around ri(b) 26. Prior - double meaning