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ACROSS 1 Asset to team seeking to advance rapidly (4-7)

9 What golfers often do on tee, missing a board (7)

10 Fail to secure second place, causing argument (7)

11 Stick sucker back (3)

12 Exact directions for Anglicans (7)

13 As a rule, American associate guards uranium (7)

14 Clear goal (3)

15 Dismiss slippery sort nicking 10p (5) 17 Wooden articles, about 10 boxes (5)

18 It may replace extract of inexcusable episode (5)

20 Picnic put in the shade? (5)

22 Yank’s stomach upset (3)

24 Pilfer small poor quality article in Paris (7) 25 Plant a big one in new arrangement (7) 26 Large rings for ladies, perhaps (3) 27 Wide-ranging racial unrest grips Germany (7)

28 Runner veering a bit? Take bottle away (7)

29 Ten dud crops failed, so none of these for sale? (3,8) DOWN 1 Smart old fellows getting the stock quickly lose it (3,3,3,6)

2 Flog company during sudden growth (7) 3 Evade sweet (5)

4 Catch ruddy university students in opera house (3,6)

5 Belt that legally accompanies battery (7) 6 Model reddens with blue tone in ambiguous remarks (6,9)

7 Noticed hiding place for organ (6) 8 African and American endlessly followed Livingstone (6)

16 Driver’s quietly training in luxury car (9) 18 Writer crosses street to find small restaurant (6)

19 Old female walked about, looking stern (2-5)

21 In recession, firm imports milled grain, grown naturally (7)

23 Kitchen utensil’s larger, by the sound of it (6)

25 Tied up agent casing unit (5)