The Star Early Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Hire car rounding a junction on government duty (8)

6 Still spinning a brass instrument (4)

10 Shaky arrowhead with many arrows (7)

11 Uneasy feeling after a meal is digested (7) 12 Successor backing model of other people (5) 13 Common connection with political policy? (5,4)

14 Hat snagged by treetop perch (6)

16 Taking into account the total unpaid (8)

19 Keep mum and thanks one in the pub (8)

21 Uproar over shady scheme (6)

24 Coveted stone to rock blast area (9)

25 Novice left in Alpine state (5)

27 Footballer is the second to one to shed tears (7) 28 Dog trails body after master (7)

29 Survive outside your little shelter on the farm (4) 30 Tube used in three-act play (8) DOWN 2 Please bring into play after a masterly header (5) 3 Negative publicity over poet’s work (7)

4 Burst in and sound happy to be back into it (6)

5 Learn sum differed from some figures (8)

6 Hunter’s cry to agree with a third of the hounds (5,2) 7 Remove water and single fire starter from one’s field (9) 8 Jack of all trades required certainty to counter hesitation (8)

9 Dole out at rally to the audience (4)

15 Hobby of Greek character in modern times (9)

17 Shape up if age felt unfamiliar without one (3,1,4) 18 Ground-breaking performanc­e of its choir (8) 20 Pirates ordered a long and wearisome walk (7) 22 Performer gave it a rest in some fashion (7)

23 Quick to make point about caper (6)

24 Room for the altar amongst the cheap seats (4) 26 Bra is enhancing some uplift (5)

QUICK

ACROSS 1 Slightly salty (8)

6 Young of the elephant (4) 10 Wild (7)

11 Having lavish ornamentat­ion (7) 12 Sap-sucking insect (5) 13 Fault-finding (9)

14 Hold an opponent in boxing (6)

16 Prehistori­c stone monument (8)

19 Class almanac (8) 21 Tattered at the edges (6) 24 Rich and elaborate spectacle (9)

25 Person who eats no animal products (5)

27 Dead and rotting flesh (7) 28 Own (7)

29 Strip the skin off (4) 30 Stringent, fastidious (8) DOWN 2 Gag (5)

3 Relating to humour (7) 4 Bring about, hasten (6) 5 Scottish islands (8) 6 French Mediterran­ean island (7)

7 Availabili­ty of funds (9) 8 Economic independen­ce (8)

9 Squad (4)

15 Initial, first (9)

17 Pleasure seeker (8) 18 Persist in (8)

20 Declare to be blessed, as the first step to sainthood (7)

22 Examine again after an interval (7) 23 Shortsight­edness (6) 24 Choose (4)

26 Gather slowly, in small increments (5)

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