CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Unpalatable and unbelievable councillor dismissed (8) 5 Vinegary recluse banishes son (6) 9 Where to see batter expand (8)
10 One finances bread supplier recruiting 100 (6)
12 German song
told story (4)
13 Builder’s mate played
with son twice (10)
15 Stock controller ordered a brace to be refitted (3,4,6) 19 Photographer’s responsibility? Astronomical phenomena (8,5)
23 Rich lady worked with us in study of fluids (10)
25 Service sort of square buoyant structure (4)
28 Face city centre
with girl briefly (6)
29 Work with guy is beginning to mar feeling of hope (8)
30 Stripper isn’t bothered about snooty duke (6)
31 Coy nurse trained to be the centre of attention (8)
DOWN
1 I go round disregarding
rare sign of winter (6)
2 Host trio of Europeans
winning medal (5)
3 Couple ran across one
heading north (4)
4 Start to open boring new
hotels in African state (7)
6 Clubs damage entrance (5) 7 Site a desk askew to show preference for one camp (4,5)
8 Carry on busily nursing
old clot perhaps (8)
11 Joint mostly was aware
of saving energy (4)
14 One’s often spoiled flyer
radical dropped in (4)
15 British group defends route for fast transmission system (9)
16 Follow setter perhaps (3) 17 Chop up end of
term paper (4)
18 This funny chap entertains
one from Corinth, say (8) 20 Steel industry holds up feature with banks in Africa (4)
21 Choose, for example, Spooner’s wages when unwell (4,3)
22 Spread 3s around
rear of city block (6)
24 Idiot restricts main
artery that’s faulty (5)
26 Commercial that is
superior yet so long (5)
27 Farm store partly demolished after being erected (4)
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