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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