The Star Early Edition

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1 Dancing master's classes (7) 5 Joke about record of one with a colourful coat (6) 9 Culture of state corruption (5) 10 Reading the lines in meagre coverage of young lady in her majority (9) 11 Solve crimes, even those in the army (10) 12 Conflict between head of forensics and due process (4) 14 Retiring from centre field after dissent (6) 15 Few lechers wrote on love (3,2,3) 17 Chattered on when quietly flustered (8) 19 Devour the last of the grub in a ravaged globe (6) 22 Record cholestero­l level being reduced (4) 23 Clown fish landed by farm workers (5,5) 26 Phrasing is cryptic in clue, too (9) 27 Body of the church accepted interim leader was green (5) 28 Plug opening time before Christmas (6) 29 One who's washed up the banshee's howler (3-4) DOWN 1 Set is adjusting to locations (5) 2 Platform for dissolving rust in computer storage (7) 3 Ease a friend's crossing over the turbulent Loire (10) 4 Higher after second last meal (6) 5 Month is about right to cut into strips (8) 6 Lose one's footing by a small margin (4) 7 Inept at treating invalid (7) 8 Indication for surgery to remove heart with modern operation (8) 13 Half an hour before cleaner makes sharp for four, say (10) 14 Predated rousing the dead (8) 16 Chauvinist's foe takes Tracey in hand (8) 18 Sound of cobbler's tool rang out in total (3-4) 20 Brief on making light of Guy Fawkes night (7) 21 Student mired in simple matter to grasp (6) 24 Brilliance of heaven is gutted when following Satan's lead (5) 25 Think Minnie has nothing to lose (4)

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CRYPTIC CLUES

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