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Across
- 1. One who stands guard for metal (6)
- 4. Messes up press broadcast about competition (8)
- 10. Each rupee returned certainly on cancellation (7)
- 11. Hundreds getting burnt when exposed to stimulants (4-3)
- 12. Foolish to have left in wife’s absence without making any noise (8)
- 13. Offensive basically goes up a notch in honour of resistance (6)
- 15. Entrepreneur bids initially, bottles, loses heart and retreats (4)
- 17. Not the praying kind, that man is locked up in loft (9)
- 20. Some monstrous bug in weird collection of animals (9)
- 21. Run deftly (4)
- 24. With clothes removed, aunt caught boy naked (6)
- 25. Cameras all over the place capturing extremely heinous slaughter (8)
- 28. One breaking old law perhaps went into hiding (4,3)
- 29. Quality/tone, for a change, forgotten in drunken celebration (7)
- 30. Go with a lady in swimsuit, take the heat off! (3,5)
- 31. Compensation for each man’s death comes at the end (6)
Down
- 1. Extraordinary scheme to capture second knight with pawns, say (8)
- 2. Ring inset with red gem (5)
- 3. Horse’s trimmed, adorned with jewels (6)
- 5. Temperature in terribly icy town (4)
- 6. Buy bag to keep tea (8)
- 7. Expressive lady’s mostly outspoken about it! (9)
- 8. Belts for model not available in stores (6)
- 9. Old man, upset by affair, leaving mother and embarrassed landlord? (3,6)
- 14. Spinner breaks stand after that man’s indecision (9)
- 16. Live plagued by cancer, ultimately experiencing pain that’s crossing the threshold (9)
- 18. Spring up to contain unending protest march by rival (8)
- 19. _______ (8)
- 22. Missile that kills uprising lamenting lives primarily taken by hazard (6)
- 23. Rowdy finally hides in a ghetto for safety (6)
- 26. Compartment is capable of accommodating grown-up excluding baggage, essentially (5)
- 27. Bird bites back, loses head (4)
