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Using the given shapes, create four four-letter anagrams by dividing the grid into sections. You may rotate the shapes, but may not flip them. Answers next week.
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CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Time affected dour house (5) 4 Portrayed nobleman in grass (9)
9 Space for joint manoeuvre (5,4)
10 Company reappearing with a drink (5)
11 Intermittent tiff breaking out with university student (6) 12 Traitor finding fault with gold (8)
14 Talk after ambassador gets ceremonial attire (9)
15 Back to get married and get more ammunition (5) 17 Attorney in play before midnight (5)
19 Watch composition, following occasion (9)
22 Doctor at home with European remedy (8) 24 Augment opulent space first (6)
26 Plate, unusually, is sprung (5) 27 Summary – one on accuracy (9)
28 Amplifier makes notes roar out (9)
29 Arrived and left an animal (5) Down 1 Part is one of a dozen (7)
2 Bidet is ordered with eccentric payment method (5,4)
3 Turned back concerning injury (7)
4 The summit of architecture (4) 5 Rum becomes terribly clumsy (10)
6 Not sure relative is on a river (7)
7 Time to perform outside, one implied (5)
8 Sketch woman putting on a bit of weight (7)
13 Kitty softening first in mixed company (7,3)
16 A mother taking boy to island for some metal (9)
17 Church almost turning artist into a soldier (7)
18 Cut any deviation around a peninsula (7)
20 Car shows wrong caption (7) 21 Arrange the loan for alcohol (7)
23 Raffles ties (5)
25 Joker points, right to mock (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
1 Royal house (5)
4 Told (9)
9 Breathing space (5,4) 10 Hot drink (5)
11 Sporadic (6)
12 Turncoat (8)
14 Ornamental band (9) 15 Provide new weapons (5)
17 Now (5) 19 Time-measuring instrument (9)
22 Drugs (8)
24 Improve (6)
26 Jumped (5) 27 Exactness (9)
28 Hollow part of instrument (9) 29 Humped mammal (5)
Down
1 Fraction (7)
2 Payment method (5,4) 3 Turned back (7) 4 House part (4) 5 Awkward (10)
6 Vague (7)
7 Understood (5)
8 Sketch (7)
13 Mixture of different styles (7,3) 16 Chemical element (9) 17 Catholic soldier (7) 18 Mexican state (7) 20 Former car brand (7) 21 Colourless, flammable liquid (7)
23 Portrays (5)
25 Mock (4)