The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)

Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

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ACROSS

1 Takes a breather from carrying weapon (5) 4 Parade in front of Marble Arch (5) 10 Argue about a boring tool (5) 11 Enthusiasm Guevara has for French roll (7) 12 Rum sort vandalised platform (7) 13 A young lady is wrong (5) 14 Timekeeper’s to observe (5) 16 Not long ago Cornish town lost direction (5) 21 Beast, any he damaged (5) 23 Urge fee amendment for exile (7) 25 Note I’d prepared about one issue (7) 26 Some took a picture of the animal (5) 27 Takes quick glances, we hear, at diarist (5) 28 Number three is out (5)

DOWN

2 Thirty-one days on a golf course! (7) 3 More common underdone,(5) though less 5 Enliven a Northern Island friend (7) 6 Some dramatic action needed on plants (5) 7 Quiet tunes for couples (5) 8 Abraham about to hold up another president (5) 9 Uptight in the future, perhaps (5) 15 Oxfam, for example, is cautious about it (7) 17 Joke while in toboggan with suitcases (7) 18 Almost astute little creature (5) 19 Edge of a black cold surface (5) 20 Bottled spirit? (5) 22 The best part of Portuguese literature (5) 24 Defy female hoodlum (5)

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