CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. He’s mourning misguided healthcare accommoda tion (7,4)

9. Hooligans return pursu ing fresh paper distribu tor (7)

10. She loses heart beside unpleasantly crude Don Juan (7)

11. French river that’s for sale (3)

12. Vicar briefly tours popular lake in the neighbourhood (7)

13. Surrey town dealing with one barrier (7)

14. Officer keeps one illumi nated (3)

15. Storyteller recalling main work (5)

17. Speak highly of former singer, not old (5)

18. White? Almost the oppo

site around November (5)

20. A piece of recondite gossip (2,3)

22. Writer’s beginning to placate mischievous child (3)

24. Last moves by men on board need AGM changes (7)

25. Silly moo cuts silly hymn — or him, perhaps? (7)

26. Occasionally where to get rid of waste (3)

27. A limping U.S. lawman’s walk (7)

28. Reason for drop in level of eg a lake possibly (7)

29. Copy slim king’s accept ance of conflicting beliefs (11)

Down

1. Met here canny old stew ard in distress (3,8,4)

2. Cultivated Nairobi tree (7)

3. Pastoral work idly com posed on lake (5)

4. Good traps need to be reset for snail, say (9)

5. Former doctor told writer about India (3-4)

6. An amazing sentence often ends with this! (11,4)

7. On rising, the French guzzle their wine — and whine (6)

8. Passionate paintings surround study (6)

16. Obstruct individual in street with everyone (9)

18. City wife supports extra local regulation (3-3)

19. Clubs abhor a posh French country house (7)

21. They’re struck in a hole

Mike drilled on way up (7)

23. Mollycoddle mite initially wrapped in rag (6)

25. Spartan hotel needs refurbishing (5)