The Star Late Edition

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

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ACROSS

1 Lightly strikes the final bugle call (4)

4 Child’s play to link the taste of beer to bed and church (3-6)

10 A mature style, but quite unprofessi­onal (7)

11 Pitch and rise confused primate (7)

12 Wild bear relatives to enter, perhaps illegally (5,4) 13 British settled in that Canadian territory (5) 14 Computing appears in updated resume of retired professor (8)

16 Enemy troop leader stands by America in the early stage (6)

19 Back end at the rear of an Arab dress (6)

21 Hairgrip used as police ID number (5,3)

24 Class suit to be covering for shirt (5)

25 Grist to the mill when admitted by stern hospital specialist (9)

27 State with atrocious leadership or Nazi dispositio­ns (7)

28 Radical to exert influence with yours truly (7)

29 Does my pun fail if it’s another name I use? (9)

30 No right to quarrel with a fever (4)

DOWN

2 Universiti­es made incompeten­t into expert (7) 3 One thousand underwrote supposedly sane informer (5) 4 Ran a huge system of public address (8)

5 Irishman shaved brow and left police force (6)

6 Spicy dish with part of fowl’s head and horse’s tackle (9)

7 Novelty for the amateur knitter (7)

8 Dovetail in the shape of horn bird (5)

9 Set up commercial bakery operation around dawn (8) 15 Pervert canonised as soon as possible (2,1,6)

17 Daylight desiccates various items (8)

18 Dream of condition to be lasting (4,4)

20 Glad hand when embracing new set (7) 22 Social climber has equal footing with the middle of broad street (7)

23 Lay down the awful nadir to follow overwhelmi­ng start (6)

24 Applaud while wrapping head of state in an embrace (5)

26 Indian writing of university involvemen­t in the performing arts (5)

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