DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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DOWN 1 Person behind the movement of drugs (6) 2 Workers putting minced veal into a vessel (6) 3 Done too much (4) 4 A beginner in athletics? (7) 5 Give credit to some of the needy, for faith (5) 6 Political group, crafty on the quiet? (5) 8 The high cost of terrorism? (4) 9 Man of Kent (3) 12 When shot, go to the treatment centre (3) 13 She had a difference with Diana (5) 15 A game faced impassively (5) 18 Whiskey people (5) 19 What cockneys say when they see gold? (3) 20 Rail line I may join in time (3) 21 It’s a job, after one short month, to compose a trio (7) 22 You may not remember resting therein (3) 23 A relative in hospital (6) 24 Cook up a disparaging term for MPs (4) 25 Deprived of beer, perhaps, by a certain measure (6) 26 Sadie, upset when separated (5) 27 Goes around with runts (5) 28 It’s apt to be turned on (3) 30 Nearly all use a self-starter during a car test (4) ACROSS 1 Quick to take a break in the office (6) 7 Not the king of plums! (8) 8 Get very heated (4) 10 Little house on top of a dam (6) 11 Very important old city man (6) 14 Simenon made a lot of noise about them (3) 16 It’s Wednesday, so duck a dunderhead in the river! (5) 17 They’re bony and cagy (4) 19 Space traveller, tailed (5) 21 He’s a card! (5) 22 Sign for the input (5) 23 Lubber doing a clean-up job (4) 26 Astonishing start at university (5) 28 Being knotty, it takes a bit of patience (3) 29 Having cracked his nut, is prevented from leaving (4,2) 30 The boss may be a mere boy (6) 31 Chooses a different spot (4) 32 Birds giving a brownish grey fantail a nasty sock! (8) 33 When a trout swims drunkenly around Beachy Head, it’s definitely fishy! (6)