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Crosswords

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ACROSS

1 Gain the ultimate in chocolate parts for pastries (12)

9 Hard case is torment after surprising­ly calm start to solving (9)

10 Film clubs involved in deal (5)

11 Short article finished by right time (6)

12 All but last of well deer about to scatter (8)

13 One farmhouse installed with new light (6)

14 Horrible miser with ale is less generous (8)

17 Accomplish­ed journalist admits former lover turned smart (8)

19 Alcohol about to be consumed by drunk before church (6)

21 React badly with nut crop (8)

23 Batter around string vegetable (6)

25 One's returned good mother's letter to Greek person (5)

26 English Queen follows noise to find criminal (9)

27 Issue beginning to give worries for female artists (12)

DOWN

2 Shift back cooker (9)

3 Fellow American, some choosy person (7)

4 Row about Italian coming north (4)

5 Note controvers­ial pleads being declined (8) 6 Feeding stories, fool girls (7)

7 Hut roughly-built Hamish acknowledg­es in part (5)

8 Sorted somewhere to run heavenly event (6,6)

9 Player tilts certain buggy (12)

15 One not dishearten­ed, still keeping last of her energy to mediate (9)

16 Damage sure to wreck choppers (8)

18 Free tea in club? Nothing to lose (7)

20 Men surroundin­g the Spanish religious buildings (7)

22 Waves after leader's lost appeals (5)

24 Plant's excellent resistance (4)

ACROSS

1 Finger, toe or numeral (5)

4 Wonderland girl (5)

10 Supervise (7)

11 Verbose (5)

12 Mortal (5)

13 Vivid red colour (7)

15 Peak (4)

17 Undergroun­d railway (5)

19 Bacteria usually present in the digestive tract (1,4)

22 Drivel (4)

25 Titled woman (7)

27 Total (3,2)

29 Blow the top, like a volcano (5)

30 White of egg (7)

31 Fragrant wood (5)

32 Salt water (5)

DOWN

2 Clumsy (5)

3 Narrow-minded and parochial (7)

5,20dn eg the House of Commons (5,7)

6 Affable (7)

7 This tonic for musicians (3-2)

8 The two of a suit (5)

9 Wat, a leader of the Peasants' Revolt (5)

14 Chops (4)

16 see 20dn

18 Put to death (7)

20,16dn Gozunders (7,4)

21,20dn eg the House of Lords (5,7)

23 Academy Award (5)

24 Exhausted (5)

26 Additional (5)

28 Devil (5)

Fill in the grids so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved - just solve the puzzle using resoning and logic.

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