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TELEGRAPH CRYPTIC

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Across

1 Hit and stumped round end of over (6) 4 Fought advance with daughter embracing darling (8) 9 Was first to admit slob was idle (6)

10 Terribly serious following new obsession (8)

12 Court’s central point overturned in court case (8)

13 One’s back having taken in a distant expedition (6) 15 Cat litter’s loose blends keeping hot (13) 18 Offensive former husband can be polite, possibly (13) 22 Insect originally circling field (6) 24 Regimen broken eating acceptable dessert (8)

26 Anaestheti­c with nitrogen and oxygen kept in cold (8) 27 Hesitate, seeing female change (6) 28 Shifty about cooker left dirty (8) 29 Polishes, accepting corporal’s first orders (6)

Down

Recognise sailor hugging upper-class European (6) 2 Almost discover jerk’s unsentimen­tal (9) 3 Shout for joy, capturing Queen, guru’s last piece (7) 5 Harbinger literary mariner raised (4) 6 Shot phaser suppressin­g power, maybe (7) 7 Aluminium sink set up for scientist (5) 8 Devotee getting record on impulse, oddly (8) 11 Brief half of police catching a criminal (7) 14 A star rose rising up (7) 16 Tireless Tsipras initially dividing Greece in broadcast (9) 17 Yokels in endless quiet among pines (8) 19 Tease is acceptable in show (7) 20 Outlaw gang pinches gear (7) 21 Wide bristles collecting rubbish (6) 23 Freight vehicle on move (5) 25 Pressure on unhealthy to get some medicine (4)

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