CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 16,752
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ACROSS
1 Greek letter found in dictionary, one about lots of bars (7,5)
8 Free places to go in posh Tyneside? (7)
9 A top-class couturier brings in tons for accountant (7)
11 Horse with lower jumps could become useful (10)
12 Sticks around, looking complacent (4)
14 Eeyore’s confused around small awful buildings (8)
16 Count American coins first, wasting time (6)
17 Contest opinion endlessly (3)
19 Huge comedian has succeeded (6)
21 New English doctor completed cases for part of year (8)
24 Russian leader’s independent carrier (4)
25 Obscure detective’s penetrating intuition (10)
27 Annoy soldier with bottle (7)
28 Madrid gent covered a large bash (7)
29 Lady with Prescott distributed flyers in the past (12)
DOWN
1 Pulverised coal oddly raises not much heat (7)
2 A Petty Officer is accepting the sailor’s best time (10)
3 Soviet boss British never bamboozled about zero hour (8)
4 Is that so European
stops recovery? (6)
5 Release a foreign fool (4)
6 Smith managed our group’s strip of land (7)
7 Horrifying night crew with gun running amok (3-9)
10 I start working in area for enrolment (12)
13 Often natural fuel’s found in grass by empty lorry (10)
15 Nonstop function’s wrong (3)
18 The oil dispersed, I see, in the early Stone Age (8)
20 Red mark on skin tolerated (7)
22 Report on the French armbands (7)
23 The number one journalist joined (6)
26 Tree shelters amateur exhibition (4)
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