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Across
- 1. Silent worker in the house, almost an apparition (7)
- 5. Maybe reusable to a limited extent in a country (7)
- 9. Attach if tense, pain will reduce (3,2)
- 10. Church worker carries bag, under strain perhaps (9)
- 11. Sedge, a fashionable girl in Tempest (9)
- 12. It's good to have examination by first of March (5)
- 13. Shock over bananas (4)
- 15. "Very fast" — I mention freely (2,2,4)
- 18. Cut a length from maple instead — in other words, rush (8)
- 19. Peter did have a sex change, to start with (4)
- 22. How do you say tea is served? Fail! (3,2)
- 24. Delay of the French revolution (9)
- 26. Soon going into test barber's work (9)
- 27. Liquor bottles start to leak (5)
- 28. Currently it's considered an assault (7)
- 29. Americans look for a negative response, are regressive (7)
Down
- 1. Story teller will follow, in soup (6)
- 2. Badly tangled? American comes in to take you on a trip (5,4)
- 3. Tension as there is no Spanish agreement to join (5)
- 4. Seminal work done about a drug derived from mushroom (9)
- 5. Book on soccer, the contents are about an Italian game (5)
- 6. Recurring theme of title, I'm confused (9)
- 7. Spinner can spin both ways (5)
- 8. Some of the lines go up doddering (6)
- 14. Signal aids English plan to venture inland (9)
- 16. Necessarily Spooner asks you to give the fool some food (9)
- 17. Crazy about study of coral (9)
- 20. Refusal to award a bachelor's degree from Cambridge (6)
- 21. Anguish of girl under strain (6)
- 23. Wine drinking, key to religious doctrine (5)
- 24. It carries news from parliament by day's end (5)
- 25. Examining exposed redbreast (5)
Published - December 25, 2017 12:05 am IST
