CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Sort recipe with a cook (5) 4 Lion comes out to see Mark (9) 9 Brave, around four, to go in search of pleasure (9) 10 I step out onto the slope (5) 11 The enduring story of the foot? (6) 12 Coin sets broken up into parts (8) 14 Following American subject to get effects (9) 15 Left omen out about sharp object (5) 17 Want to remove top soil (5) 19 Customer turned up and registered another drink (9) 22 Mass ogre migration is very delicate (8) 24 Bury directions to large amount of water (6) 26 Literary family joins hard religious group (5) 27 Call, having a nose, somehow, for deduction (9) 28 Stored rye transported in military vessel (9) 29 Bugbear for first woman, having to take exercise first (5)

DOWN

1 Ceremonial costume from Algeria gets modified (7) 2 Fearsome creature running at gorilla (9) 3 Having lost weight when solvent (7) 4 Aquatic mammal has mark of authentication (4) 5 Count on instrument reaching mountain (10) 6 Excellent to have a large amount of money (7) 7 Girl has nothing but a bit of rope (5) 8 Lines rewritten to give space to Danish composer (7) 13 Key to give fruit to dull horse (6-4) 16 Macho musical transferred to Newcastle area (9) 17 Point to no-good boy getting new territory (7) 18 That woman has developed hate for plant (7) 20 Poncho worn around end of the enclosure (7) 21 Engineers charge to take turn with German émigré (7) 23 Small group of women on ship are Helvetian (5) 25 Reasonable form of outdoor entertainment (4)