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1 Indirect expression (14) 10 Jute fabric used in bags (7)

11 Two lines of rhyming verse (7)

12 Talk about old times (9) 13 Come inside (5) 14 Sheriff’s officer (7) 16 Column of hot rising air (7)

18 Mounted bullfighter (7) 20 Former Soviet republic (7)

23 Collect, gather in a heap (5)

25 Fair, unprejudiced (9) 27 Constrict, squeeze (7) 28 Copy (7)

29 Embezzle (14)

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2 Person unable to sleep (9) 3 Italian red wine (7) 4 Disadvantage, drawback (5)

5 Large group of musicians (9)

6 Small four-stringed guitar (7)

7 Small arm of the sea (5) 8 Not artificial (7)

9 Angelic child (6) 15 Outsider, alien (9) 17 Begging, dependent on alms (9)

18 Spectre (7)

19 Working area of a computer screen (7) 21 Cocktail of gin and vermouth (7)

22 Dormant, napping (6) 24 Protection, sponsorship (5)

26 Dress up, preen (5)