The Star Late Edition

SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Overturned by a monarch rescinding it (8) 5 Put an end to a cause of inebriatio­n (6) 9 A subject god (8)

10 Much attracted by one held back by ‘3’, briefly (4,2)

12 Gullible type is one taking a drink (6) 13 Huge deficit in the product of one nationalis­ed industry (8)

15 Get a pipe from the priest’s assistant (12) 18 Nothing but repetition, some say slyly, perhaps (12)

23 Does it become a swimmer to be making threatenin­g noises? (8)

24 Older Spaniard is without one (6) 26 Puts up with Jack one day (6)

27 Many a pig went into the wood (8) 28 Assimilate many one gets wrong (6) 29 King George had same trouble, note, in the Lake District (8)

DOWN

1 Salad vegetable is unusually hard on the outside (6)

2 Briskly adds five plus four plus one (6) 3 He has the knowledge then disseminat­ed (7)

4 Brief letter produced from a wallet? (4) 6 A new romance for violin (7)

7 Change of destiny at one point for this part of the country (8)

8 Treating actress Irene to a gin cocktail (8) 11 That’s including the work producing headgear (3,4)

14 TT trials? (3,4)

16 Leading position for a security man on a delivery vehicle (8)

17 Flourishin­g out in the garden (8)

19 They reveal they are working in banks (7)

20 It’s oppressive, making one terribly sour (7)

21 A very good speed for a corsair (6) 22 The breakwater is no grey constructi­on (6)

25 Keep it on and stay calm (4)

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