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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 In total, it has its warmer side (6)

Flowering shrub that meant nothing to a legendary swimmer (8)

She’s all confused about love (4)

Allowed to live in a health resort, looking rosy (6) Keep in date, possibly (6) Joined the police (3) Horse fly seen around the central Nile (5)

The necessity for a northeaste­rn edition (4) A Shakespear­ian character needs it back by Monday (5) It’s refined (5)

Should be heard during a string quartet (5)

23 A ministry’s young men? (4) 26 Cancel clean out (5) 28 Teacher is turning right (3) 29 Under strain, soundly taught for a scholarly end (6) Club player (6)

Being workshy, lied cunningly (4) Discussing many a terrible beating (8)

Pay for a piece of furniture (6) 7 8 10

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Salt, perhaps, or a sailor boy? (6)

Tied up by a low reactionar­y (6)

The way to make an article stick out (4)

Like Cora, wild about the man who blew the whistle (4,3)

It’s very right that I do business 6

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Getting on is something to shout about, mate (5) Not fit to make a meal? (4) It’s allowed in tennis (3) Heating element? (3) Homeric work one mislaid? (5)

See just for a second, maybe? (5)

A girl called Heather (5) Draw a vessel (3)

Its welcome is silent (3) Is accommodat­ing and bustles around (7) Dismissed for being unavailabl­e? (3)

Budgie’s favourite artist (6) In the aquarium, less than a major feature? (4)

A blow with an oar (6)

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