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1 Worried man is stopping suffocating habit (5-7) 8 A foreign chap imports top-class ointment (7) 9 Releases son collared by the French aristocrat (4,3) 11 Oaths allow weapons to be put outside (10) 12 Left border around tablet (4) 14 German shepherd resident in Strasbourg (8) 16 Fine men with dull appearance (6) 17 Foreign piece, part of mobile unit (3) 19 Quake in Turkey – city’s reeling (6) 21 Called Arthur briefly about economic problem (5,3) 24 University faculty withdrawn in Australia (4) 25 Yorkshire town imports large fruit? Buyer checks it (4-2,4) 27 Instruct Europeans to adopt gold coin (7) 28 Coach turned round lake, making move slowly (7) 29 No work emphasised revolutionary measure in kitchen (12)
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1 Young birds remove article from extremely coy gannets (7) 2 Irate baron condemned irregularity (10) 3 Citizen’s engaged in island in Holland (8) 4 Start to manage a woman’s ailment (6) 5 Bird’s kinetic energy controls it (4) 6 Number 10 wrong to retain one element (7) 7 Confirm replacement’s against stopping art gallery (12) 10 Coalpits feel unstable – might they do this? (4,2,6) 13 What’s said on encountering messy situation? (3-2-3-2) 15 Conservationists protect English lace (3) 18 This URL developed to cover old calculi (8) 20 Galvanise, then somehow exercise (7) 22 A couple of days in valley are exhilarating (7) 23 Overturned tree never yields layer of wood (6) 26 Miss first of siestas among the Spanish (4)