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Across: 1 Pal refusing to swim where oil tankers travel frequently (7,4)
9 Embroider doilies to put on a pedestal (7)
10 Painkiller troubles anyone with disease at first (7)
11 Trim top off grass, just the top (3)
12 Lacking energy, his poems displayed false reasoning (7)
13 Barrister meets disheartened lady for a short time (7)
14 Notice Oscar causing disturbance (3)
15 Writer’s replacing amateur in game, making easy putt (5)
17 Gunpowder ingredient can upset engineers (5)
18 Joins sporting events (5)
20 Drive over first of Grampian hills (5)
22 Personnel manager employs furniture maker (3)
24 US uncle’s broken heart (7)
25 Stimulating devout fashion designer (7)
26 Duck starts to nibble in lake (3)
27 Pagan’s kind, I gathered (7)
28 Complete song, one all about daughter of King Minos (7)
29 Pick young trainee originally in part as conductor (11)
Down: 1 He’s chosen copper compound that glows (15)
2 Bar trouble interrupting call (7)
3 IT company controls each structural component (1-4)
4 Banana cooked with red curry accompaniment (4,5)
5 Impromptu? To pianist this is more than idyllic (7)
6 Leave runway, then head away across line and flip (3,3,3,6)
7 Rest in cosiest armchair (6)
8 Enter data again to do with face (6)
16 Mother resents disentangling muddle (5,4)
18 Where chap, say, gets introduction to equines (6)
19 Tree is decaying, absorbing litres but unable to bear fruit (7)
21 Probe English peculiarity briefly in New York (7)
23 Notice Hare initially avoiding Mad Hatter’s topic (6)
25 Philosopher’s climbing mountain top nonstop (5)
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