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8 Run rapidly in your working life (6) 1 Composer set up part for a single man 9 Brought back gold found in desert (8) rocks (8)

2 Interfere with Olympic award, say (6) 10 Discard a wooden hut (4)

11 Temper shown by all competitors in 3 To yell ‘please turn over some weight’ is

rice-growing area (5,5) a word puzzle (10)

12 Fly down with nerve (10) 4 Payment on trust might be direct (6)

14 One with nothing given thanks for a tiny 5 A coconut stall that’s grey (4) amount (4)

6 Job is held back by drink (8)

15 Type of school advertising for one girl

7 To laze around is not his style (6)

(7)

17 A pop group on leave (7) 13 Being merry I’d be cracked up about 19 Soon you won’t know who wrote this (4) nothing – in stitches! (10)

21 Mother and old boy reversed an ele16 Orange tongue? (8)

phant? Nonsense! (5-5) 18 Make big intro on a regular route (8)

24 Arrested again though pure, carted off!

20 Annoy with sewing tool (6)

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22 Motorway fury? It’s an illusion (6)

26 Tax is your responsibility (4)

27 Asserting that soft earth, say, goes 23 Put idea out, but not one to modernise

towards porcelain (8) (6)

28 Retain complicated part of the eye (6) 25 Suddenly grasp a small branch (4)

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