| Clues across |
| 1 | Leading support for bridge is holding back sea in France (7) |
| 5 | Ancient Greek painting found inside bridge (7) |
| 10 | Forty-nine in ancient Rome holding party for false god (4) |
| 11 | Help for the deaf? Ghandi, confused, held one around ear (7-3) |
| 12 | Scared when weather’s like this? (5) |
| 13 | It forms a link between characters starting education and exam which I’m in the middle of – on the third page, perhaps (9) |
| 15 | In France, I can be seen holding a sheet of glass (first of samples – oriental) (8) |
| 17 | Ring outfit in the beginning (6) |
| 19 | Soldier turns back lady holding a monitor (6) |
| 20 | Tall vegetation grows below it, almost entirely stunted by first of easterlies (4,4) |
| 21 | Graphite called for when business starts to be in need of metal (9) |
| 23 | A portal in stone (5) |
| 26 | Shark’s a hard hitter (10) |
| 27 | Put up with teddy? (4) |
| 28 | The ring for boxing, perhaps, where my note returns to me, at first (7) |
| 29 | Expensive, the French tower (7) |
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| Clues down |
| 2 | Diarist (no saint!) becomes spokesman, losing pawn (5) |
| 3 | Mature play, as heard on radio, would be sensational, romantic piece in theatre (9) |
| 4 | Yellow pigment, stirred, has no right to bounce back! (4) |
| 6 | Ban nine poets, unfortunately, where colours may be seen (5-5) |
| 7 | Jolly chap on Captain Flint’s ship (5) |
| 8 | I’m in a country, revealing what makes Mickey Mouse run (9) |
| 9 | Craft beats side with queen (6-7) |
| 14 | Had sufficient funds to settle everything with urgency, omitting enclosure concerning nature of certain materials (10) |
| 16 | Heavenly food for some lacking a gene, maybe (lacking gin, too!) (5,4) |
| 18 | In disarray, fifty lie about rotten bilge, impossible to read (9) |
| 22 | Brooch came to nothing (5) |
| 24 | Fish-war suffers reversal within limits of the Channel (5) |
| 25 | Now it’s mine – way out! (4) |
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