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1 Australian trod clumsily when welcoming single inspector (7) 5 Used to be time to sit in the centre of a laundry basin (7) 9 Used endless spirit to make blood fluid (5) 10 Convention of two score gathered outside African land (9) 11 Not necessarily cunning to follow pointers (10) 12 Naked animal swimming in the sea (4) 14 Two parties embodying one vital urge (6) 16 Fascination with the proceeds of usury (8) 18 Links course to filling between slices (8) 19 Local state, an enclave of Tennessee? (6) 22 Handle North Americans' third (4) 23 Depressed part of Britain to hear of the world's biggest beasts (4,6) 26 Whipping boy for mislaying page's coat (9) 27 First among equals played duet or solo piece (5) 28 Those who send mail out to press (7) 29 Casual dig about the kitty being stolen (7) DOWN 1 Sporting arenas left to football club (7) 2 Grating turn before miserable finale to sad song (5) 3 Dilapidated urban area housed the degraded and leaderless (10) 4 Turn down and replace edges to weld together (6) 5 Twittering about shiny stuff to wear after battle? (8) 6 Smack of initial short circuit (4) 7 Asian sent out east in awe (9) 8 Weapon compartment on the sides of Exocet (7) 13 Matched net output of task force (10) 15 Certainly not disturbing many bones (2,2,5) 17 Seafood for the working class lodging round dock (8) 18 Takes off where son finishes (5,2) 20 Now eats crumbs of a piece of cake (2,5) 21 Repressed writer needs the odd thump (4-2) 24 Split one's sides during brief onslaught (5) 25 Yield or offspring, say (4)