CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,765

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I help with a cargo at sea arriving at island group (11) Disagree, swapping pieces where sewer ends (7) Manages to find some slips in College Times (5,2) 11 A quiet wood (3) 12 Old train at end of journey gets exaggerated praise (7) 13 Guts needed to put tavern on NI peninsula (7) 14 First letters of sentence in Catalan exactly as written (3) 15 One leaves Italian region

for shaded area (5) 17 Daily Mail’s top

attraction (5) 18 Southern friendly

bees do it (5) 20 Broadcasting how we

all live? (2,3) 22 Occasionally fierce

rage (3) 24 Improve English Channel — it’s almost all polluted (7) 25 Notice vehicle with case of champagne make progress (7) 26 Label pistol when

it’s returned (3) 27 Old poet takes tea touring top-class church (7) 28 Google complicated

variable subject (7) 29 To fund limited company isn’t unusual for pipe seller (11) 1 9 10

ACROSS DOWN

1 Fake card? It keeps the blood pumping in theatre (10,5) 2 Conservative can’t bear a posh country house (7) 3 Embed popular

amateur (5) 4 English boy in China trained to make tortilla (9) 5 Article in a large computer’s calendar (7) 6 Comment on pole position for scout (11,4) 7 Complete works primarily used in army unit (6) 8 Building material agent’s over plugging adhesive (6) 16 Based on personal data, microbe wriggles with it (9) 18 Small fish stink (6) 19 CBI man arranged to hire independent taxi (7) 21 Pasta recipe

Olivia cooked (7) 23 Diarist playing regularly after the night before (6) 25 Leaders of armed gang go round organising violence (5)