CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
No 17,010
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ACROSS
1 First sign of supersonic speed before passage as activity for astronauts (5,6)
9 Group touring California
explores vacated sites (7)
10 Model beginning to promote a charity event in operation (7)
11 The day before
revealing clothing (3)
12 Bizarre ale drunk after certain French rituals principally (7)
13 Brief time moving around
in set getting wet? (7)
14 Unknown character
introducing film still (3)
15 Conventional merchandise in shop (5)
17 Raise this improperly after
consuming round (5)
18 Young animals retaining
energy in blocks (5)
20 Good person given crude
item for sucking drink (5)
22 Instinctive bravery mostly (3) 24 Follow a winding course
curiously renamed (7)
25 Forget fool blocking
toy bricks (3,2,2)
26 Struggle with
restricted look (3)
27 Endlessly cook hot stuff, a
pastry-based dessert (7)
28 A month with Heather
in Western country (7)
29 A meat cut so fancily to hide ordinary addition to pasta? (6,5)
DOWN
1 Clunky batteries ruined something to comfort children (8,7)
2 Innocent tales fabricated about King and son (7)
3 Facility left as means to
support artist’s work? (5) 4 One responsible for painters and the like? (4-5)
5 Disappear around end
of dinner to get coat (7) 6 Slight tinkering disrupted sudden industrial action (9,6)
7 Financial setback in case of grubby sort of magazine (6)
8 Loosen part of bunk
noticeably (6)
16 Old boy followed by domestic employee that’s watchful (9)
18 Manage to acquire amusing work after getting book for daughter (4,2)
19 Weapon is made to be dismantled? About right (7)
21 Measure of power with water in French painter (7)
23 Norse god linked to a cross in part of the body (6)
25 Police follow them in English city, we’re told (5)
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