CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES Across

9 Rail about taking pressure for 30 days (5) 10 Officers prohibited sound from group (5,4) 11 Extra work to pivot on declaration (3,6) 12 Swimmer turned amber (5) 13 Servant sent brute spinning around lake (6) 14 Hatred of a rendering (8) 16 Italian food around a large area (7) 18 Well-fed agent to allow additive (7) 20 Bile is about American composer (8) 22 Little money gets engineers a nucleus (6) 25 Rant about new line of merchandise (5) 26 Pride came out of call to ignore the future (5,4) 28 Smirks go around about a very friendly greeting (9) 29 Notice a way of telling the time (5)

Down

1 Agreement between parties sounds very full (4) 2 Contentious issue for bishop and rector on the way out (6) 3 Change nothing, say, including a different character (5,3) 4 Concerning a period of intense activity (5) 5 No vegetarian got caught with gold in winding ravine (9) 6 Wild boar is showing sign of pressure (6) 7 Improper sentence from the back of the court (8) 8 Informally believe in the First Couple (4,3,3) 13 Last oarsman has returned to start some swimming (10) 15 Solve her clues about parking in vault (9) 17 Ales, been brewed a different way from Beirut (8) 19 Ghost creeps away, having space (8) 21 Despicable fib starts to conceal itself (3,3) 23 Journey too much for a supporter of shooting (6) 24 Public communication radio frequencies get strange, a little bit (5) 27 Invent cosmetics, not getting up (4)