CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 French police officer diverted danger facing writer (8)
5 Catch in turn tailless
domesticated chicken (6) 9 Place for drinking here altered during dance (4,4)
10 Slavishly treat football administrators with number close to tycoon (4,2)
12 Learner is beginning to probe speech impediment (4)
13 Miserable director, one answering questions with no end of torpor (10)
15 Abandon unproductive project and console U.S. sets getting agitated (3,4,6)
19 Regarding past sort
of exhibition? (13)
23 Generous Greek character entertaining Arab group of diners (10) 25 Whisky consumed in
informal talks (4)
28 A French and British cartoonist not in order? (6)
29 Leo in sum spilt a
type of paint (8)
30 Try to justify former
purpose around clubs (6) 31 Monstrous type notes at odd points fittings for hose? (8)
DOWN
1 Unintelligible talk from leader
of grim horde losing head (6)
2 Massages, reportedly,
as requirements (5)
3 Husband in a cold year
feeling pains? (4)
4 Guy embracing romantic partner, nothing less, in spa town (7)
6 Article put in a
trap once more (5)
7 Figure seen randomly around southern and eastern U.S. state (9)
8 Earn as revenue notes I’m
exchanging close to office (8)
11 Copies a note additionally written to encapsulate European (4)
14 Some lot hosting
Roman emperor (4)
15 Tom, maybe, and I chart
suspect purgative? (9)
16 Cross found in middle of week
in West Country river (3)
17 Love starters of lately imported offal and highly spiced stew (4)
18 Pamphlet from Brazil for all to see in brownish yellow colour (8)
20 Cat, say, skirts a piece of partly
decayed vegetation (4)
21 Man with Lucy
formulated slander (7)
22 Restricts attentionseeking actions (6)
24 Asian river amid much filth (5) 26 A delivery vehicle carrying first
of items to do with fliers? (5) 27 Thing not clearly seen in
Britpop group (4)