CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A noted clinic requiring renovation? It’s happening by chance (12)
8 Culinary delicacy?
Felt fruit different without it (7)
9 Installation in building
for sporting event (7)
11 I represent suspect
undertaking (10)
12 Second person in France with largely original song (4)
14 Role Iran developed
for woman (8)
16 Hot-tasting food from Pacific Rim country, we’re told (6)
17 Block group with
no name (3)
19 Leeds, perhaps, containing a very small empty space (6)
21 Undressing with no end
of fuss and stumbling (8) 24 Impressions from people
succeeding, we hear (4) 25 One to judge lines
on hand? (4,6)
27 Follow English friend touring Mull on a regular basis (7)
28 Anticipates skilled operators with Conservative representing Republican (7)
29 A female’s rush at work producing only partly effective actions? (4,8)
DOWN
1 Bunch with old U.S.
general around lake (7)
2 Main fronts adapted for
undercover operators (10) 3 Removing obstruction from open space in a forest (8)
4 Lessen tension of French fellow getting treatment (6)
5 Gain extra bottles
afterwards (4)
6 A learner supporting a southern American university in customary way (2,5)
7 See the places designed
for horse race (12)
10 Formal wear serving
needs for a change (7,5)
13 Retailer making concession around hotel upset agent with fearful expression (10)
15 Dine in fine
atmosphere (3)
18 Ingrained dirt covering Northern ship has a depressing quality (8)
20 Victor is given a remedy on the rise to conceal first sign of repellent wart (7) 22 Charges in Sweden to trap
dictator (not half!) (7)
23 Reproductive cell from
first person in entrance (6) 26 Western Australian provided for neglected child (4)
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