CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

aCross 1 Is ready to change into legal tender (4) 3 Runs at speed, taking on first highfliers (10) It’s nonsense to use night light to make illicit spirit (9) A drunkard may also be partial to Perrier water (5) Told that I’ll be going down to the altar (5) It’s hard to get garden groves to act as shelters (8) Incentive for one to put me out on Sunday (7) Have to make a single choice of implement, working at the end (4,3)

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17 Old president pretended to be different (7) It got one’s goat that class came first (7) 22 Uplift detailed friezes, we’re told, for

large buildings (8) 24 Duck down that’s red all over (5) 27 Have to remove part of a leading

article, arguably (5) 28 Let a live armament, initially, be blown

up to cushion the blow (9) 29 Looked back to tip grass over

constituent (10) 30 Go along with a top secret,

unfortunately (4) doWN 1 Growing old main crops, by contrast

(10) 2 Demonstrates the way to go into a ship

(5) 4 Settles on a small square, originally (7) 5 Pore over dye to have medicine in sight

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21 6 Go through any operation, and keep it

in proportion (5) 7 Grand stadium in the US for major

sports event (9) 8 Order class to line up, in style (6) 9 Had a second defeat, so took back

dangerous material (8) 14 Magnanimity shown by caretaker, up to

a point (10) 16 Would one man have papered over

one’s idle fancy? (4,5) 18 Start to think up design in draft (8) 20 Maintain decree, as a rule in broadcast (7) Is about to work things out, with determination (7) 23 Meeting was in favour of it, with little

hesitation (5) 25 Broad accent at a local area back on

line (5) 26 Cliff is about to enter an empty sewer

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