THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Sports ground (7) 5 Metallic element that is liquid at near room temperature (7) 10 Mown area (4) 11 Group of states (10) 12 Beekeeper (8) 13 Sudden (6) 14 Hesitate (5) 16 Indoctrinate (9) 19 Reinforced (9) 21 Semiconductor device (5) 23 Semi-conscious state (6) 25 Brief pause (8) 27 Addition (10) 28 Hops-drying kiln (4) 29 Trap (7) 30 Easily broken (7)

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2 Vagrant (5) 3 Working clothes (9) 4 Biased (6) 6 Sea within the Mediterranean (8) 7 Woodland god in Greek mythology (5) 8 Not challenged (9) 9 Newspaper chief (6) 15 Reversal (5,4) 17 Sleeveless upper-body garment (9) 18 Expression of agreement (4,4) 20 Symbol (6) 22 Epistle (6) 24 Visit briefly (3,2) 26 Artist’s stand (5)