CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 8 Former pupil organises rest outside in the light (6) 9 Rehearse performance in ruined spire (8) 10 Vicar let off – straight up (8) 11 Breakfast makes captain lose his head (6) 12 Second quarrel is rather formal (5) 13 Wager with a foreign character (4) 14 Press starts to interview republican on network (4) 16 Judge rarebit to be badly cooked (7) 18 Defy rip-off by an act of treachery (7) 20 I have to follow husband home (4) 21 Chin-wagging a little bit (4) 22 Gain points for having small heart (5) 25 Start contest with Bruckner’s Second (6) 27 One bidet design is under control (8) 28 Drive while on a camping excursion (8) 29 Intelligence makes soldiers follow a copper (6)

DOWN 1 Steer wildly to reach junction in the road (6) 2 Stop working, leaving diamonds where parcels should be (4,6) 3 Work out third is missing to leave two (5) 4 Inferior metal from steeple endlessly crumbling on the right (7) 5 Returned with drink to a place of stagnation (9) 6 Pets run riot for part of the flight (4) 7 A drug to end up with a heavenly body (8) 14 If counties get involved, then it can be passed on (10) 15 One in garret managed to get in charge of some medicine (9) 17 Unfairly force to complain on the way (8) 19 Report a corps to an aristocrat (7) 23 Spent tenner on an ingredient for cheese (6) 24 Broadcast a race for teams (5) 26 Stare in surprise at torn page (4)