CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Set off content, like people on Glorious Twelfth? (7-5) 8. Vigilant amateur tours British province (7) 9. She rests possibly after a debut in comedy (7) 11. Firmly established in comfy old armchair? (4-6) 12. Grate fruit, removing berry (4) 14. Like rare plant for a fuel complex (4-4) 16. Barrier securing writer’s cell (6) 17. Contrary response, one from horse, I hear (3) 19. Old head swallows one sedative (6) 21. Capital lager spilt in unmade bed (8) 24. Expel American plugging religious books (4) 25. Borrow name devised for dog food perhaps (10) 27. Carefree lecturer wields pick once more (2-5) 28. Make 11 popular cereal (7) 29. Church feature that gives publican a bad name? (7,5)

Down

1. Present a uniform for static display (7) 2. Indecisive Irish concerned with note on instrument (10) 3. Chinese people invade Georgia with Scot and African (8) 4. Lecturer’s back touring Germany and Spain (6) 5. Vehicle needing mobile to be fully complete (4) 6. People wearing ermine look mature (7) 7. Union assistant had uniform remade with two rings (4,2,6) 10. Peru’s big men worried about eastern deity (7,5) 13. Western areas import goods twice for Oz city (5,5) 15. Fine sailor’s wonderful (3) 18. Youth initially getting wages in yen (8) 20. Study power in small arthropod (7) 22. A new tree’s enthralling rare obsessive types (7) 23. Stock Conservative PM once short of energy (6) 26. House paper with no leader goes belly-up (4)