| Clues across |
| 1 | Part-time worker turns back round chimney to plunge headlong (7) |
| 5 | Turkey – or one who eats it greedily? (7) |
| 9 | Boy with Information Technology goes back like the sea (5) |
| 10 | Soaking wet, but AA trusted to turn out (9) |
| 11 | Places which cruise ship visits, providing colts for pal, perhaps (5,2,4) |
| 12 | Oneself, for instance – nothing! (3) |
| 13 | Less mature, but more concerned with the environment (7) |
| 15 | “I quit trivia, getting a zero” – crazy airman (7) |
| 17 | Pass sawn-off revolver (3) |
| 18 | Lithium metal in melting pot – for ever? (3-4) |
| 19 | Addition of sugar in one instalment? (4,3) |
| 20 | Donkey found in Santa’s sack (3) |
| 22 | In run-down garden, he’d an explosive device (4,7) |
| 26 | One using 22, maybe, has Rolls-Royce – or one in test (9) |
| 27 | Greek character in the army of volunteers (5) |
| 28 | Unusual European tender came in (7) |
| 29 | Told off – or date’s off (7) |
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| Clues down |
| 1 | Accommodate, one way or the other (3,2) |
| 2 | Nursed ale – turned into anti-corrosion treatment! (9) |
| 3 | Emil’s gone off some distance (5) |
| 4 | Job for Church of England? This is the team to tackle it! (4,5) |
| 5 | Latex found in drain, we hear (5) |
| 6 | Make miller buy into metal (9) |
| 7 | Tiler’s broken measure (5) |
| 8 | A grim road winds out to entertainment centre (9) |
| 13 | Break a rung whilst holding a support? Get warranty! (9) |
| 14 | Chap next door’s drunk (binge hour) (9) |
| 15 | Ali holds fifty with gun or reptile (9) |
| 16 | Solemn declaration: “Steam swirling inside tent” (9) |
| 21 | Walk stiffly? Mostly true in street (5) |
| 23 | Dan turns up, hugging first-class nymph (5) |
| 24 | Tax queen? Could be a plus! (5) |
| 25 | The Spanish and South African antelope (5) |
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