| Clues across |
| 7 | One of the ten; one of the ten (12) (12) |
| 9 | One of the ten; one of the ten (7) (7) |
| 10 | One pair could be outside castle I despoiled, capable of returning after long stretch (4,3) (7) |
| 12 | Perhaps Nicola’s something to get a few drops from fruit – very quiet when dropped in drinks (6) (6) |
| 14 | One of the ten; second part of one of the ten (8) (8) |
| 17 | First part of one of the ten; clear throat and pay debts (7) (5,2) |
| 19 | Orders for goods during depressions – speak quickly! (7) (7) |
| 20 | Get engaged to a very loud one with bad acne; make a change when umpire with painting runs back around two poles (8) (8) |
| 21 | Last part of one of the ten; one of the ten (6) (6) |
| 24 | Raise up bridge opponents with earl (converted to suit needs),changing date about apartment being turned over (7) (7) |
| 26 | It’s the limit! One-time ship with three banks of oars, (right one missing bird) that is starting shipping raw recruits (7) (7) |
| 28 | First part of one of the ten; one of the ten (6,6) (3,9) |
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| 1 | Girl is a beauty – but not the French variety – walking at the correct pace whilst re-arranging snippet (omitting first of pages) (6) (2,4) |
| 2 | Employer(American) with hesitation put sheep right in vessel (4) (4) |
| 3 | Appertaining to birth? In South Africa, it goes round, whichever way you look at it (5) (5) |
| 4 | Gymnastic Bill (we’re told) and little Robert get a nervous twitch smothered when Pole turns up with five in desperate need (9) (9) |
| 5 | Man about this place – fellow on grassland – is jumper (4) (4) |
| 6 | Scotsman has girl coming up holding round, almond confection – very wobbly, refracting sun on top of table (8) (8) |
| 8 | It cuts beard of dashing fellow under elevator, we hear; one of the ten (5-5) (4,6) |
| 11 | Liszt wrote at least one of these Hungarian pieces, badly phrased, so I (lover of less romantic music) confuse it with classics (10) (10) |
| 13 | Dog, perhaps, loses its tail for a soul, so jumping up to the twisted distinctive character (5) (5) |
| 15 | Diligence – without attempt to create Indian flower – just a little in 21 across (lower diagram) produces a French tyre with no name (5) (2,3) |
| 16 | Became more closely packed in the deck, perhaps. Proud Len’s confused at such magnificence! (9) |
| 18 | Foot-soldiers reveal child on railway unexpectedly; United Nations getting on top of a war over quarters (8) (8) |
| 22 | Corrects last word on Doctor of Surgery: “These are dropped by British on haystacks” (6) (6) |
| 23 | Prepared broken dray containing first of Europeans, angry about Canadian fur trader (5) (5) |
| 25 | See something to pick that’s good in Paris, start eventually to touch and turn up instrument (4) (4) |
| 27 | Players with wounded mate leave out nothing when overcoming Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4) (4) |
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