The Star Early Edition

Double Crossword

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1 Properly dressed as spring came to pass (4-6-3) 10 Capote’s work on components of colloid bond (2,4,5) 11 Charge for service that’s regularly offered (3) 12 Carry roubles in the kitty (4) 13 Advise about financial penalty at the top of one’s game (2,4,4) 15 Lay down to start one’s journey (3,5) 16 Brewer’s capacity for conifer stock (6) 18 Exchange half the Ring cycle, taking in the shorter alternativ­e (6) 20 Smell thugs in parts of London (8) 23 Doesn’t sing enough hiphop loudly enough to be classified (5,5) 24 Mammoth was good if left in the shade (4) 27 Count on losing last bit of corn (3) 28 Crotchety band leader confrontin­g wind instrument­s over mules, for example (11) 29 Hurt it as it tips mutilator into caustic solution (5,8) DOWN 2 Selected passage to have first of the readers engrossed in bar (7) 3 Loaf that’s left over, having doubled in length (4) 4 A tribune threw out resident from the city (8) 5 Like moon shot to initially drop bit on the side (6) 6 Dig do-or-die performanc­e of an Australian music maker (10) 7 Sack priest for perverted fun on outcrop (7) 8 Element of glitz in combat jackets (4) 9 Men get training in Nazi paramilita­ry divisions (8) 14 Toll in a car crash outside San Jose? (5,5) 15 Shudder nervously but keep nothing hidden (8) 17 Love politician to interfere in score orchestrat­ed by Strauss, say (8) 19 Stand or race around the country (7) 21 Chap swallowed first of the riesling before the cheese (7) 22 Grand accommodat­ion for stableboys? (6) 25 Like falling off a log base in the end, and rolling off, say (4) 26 Produce ringleader arrested by police (4)

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