CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Play duet with hoodlum talking offensively (11)

9 Wally corrected flaw breaking strike (4-3)

10 Corrupt one midsummer test (7)

11 Metal container (3) 12 Flog business during fast growth (7)

13 Incomplete broadcaster accepts cut (7)

14 Here and there robusta is in flower (3)

15 Dance like short girl doing a turn (5)

17 Miller makes this boundary around lake (5)

18 Competitive bloke maintaining energy (5)

20 Mexican revolutionary’s big house (5)

22 Shadow around object of worship (3)

24 Indian city appears in obscure drawing (7)

25 Huge Cameron hit (7) 26 Commercial circle creating commotion (3)

27 Nut trifle stirred with first of blackberries (7)

28 Merry RA managed to acquire a new partner (7)

29 Tumbledown hut in Oslo they rebuilt as stop-over (5,6)

DOWN

1 They smell nice and lovely if they all become dispersed (4,2,3,6)

2 More costly treatment rooms where climbers go (7)

3 Bailey often accompanies this version of motet (5)

4 Loveless unions unlikely to dispense with routine? (9)

5 Unusually, he films that particular male (7)

6 BBC boss maybe realigned broadcast to include minister (8-7)

7 Bubbly water in Paris reportedly, one helping 8s? (6)

8 Performer puts pressure on film (6)

16 Ideal wedding very boring up in Scottish lake (4,5)

18 Order fish provided by Yankee (6) 19 Normal location of event limited social climber (7)

21 Try at times to engage English representative (7)

23 Educated lady to impress court with a little bit of poetry (6)

25 Doctors often go over main part of body (5)

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