CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Pass by one college in pain (5) 4 Pitch tents by a river and a tower (9) 9 Difference sees India vote in new arrangement (9) 10 Vice has caught the French politician (5) 11 Character of inclination? (6) 12 Sensationally publish a small dish (8) 14 Chap and myself in pearl production that is fleeting (9) 15 Vehicle has keys and log (5) 17 Terror puts deity in charge (5) 19 Boat about managed, with thanks to graduate (9) 22 To iterate: queen has a gun (8) 24 Decree no raid is to be carried out (6) 26 Old Irishman resident in another country (5) 27 Grounding takes in large terrestrial (9) 28 Bore altered to different alignment (9) 29 Range takes on new material (5)

DOWN

1 Fish provides vitamins included in painkiller (7) 2 Valiant, he dealt with a monster (9) 3 About to ruin a broken, medium bone (7) 4 Turn carbon to a form of fuel (4) 5 Friend has a lupin hybrid to control (10) 6 Obsolete, building CIA operation (7) 7 Mixture of paint that is not appropriate (5) 8 More trouble outside for every ruler (7) 13 800m, say, to follow occurrence (5,5) 16 Repeatedly stop man being a philistine (9) 17 Left ten changes as a sign (7) 18 Talk incessantly about milliner (7) 20 Gather swamp is next to a lake (7) 21 Midday to get horse into shape (7) 23 A student of vision? (5) 25 Nudge quietly with a stick (4)