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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 21 Quite small in a way but very agreeable (5) 24 Time for expansion (7) 28 Take a tasty morsel (3) 29 Just scrap (4,5) 10 Can a saint have a game of

cards? (7) 11 One way to score (5) 13 Hang around and see it return

again (6) 15 We get trained about the way

tea’s made (6) 18 Animal comes from Asia and is

taken in by father (5) 19 I may be scared about

travelling on a motorbike (7) 21 Youth employed to skin fish (9) 23 Man in a mix-up (3) 24 A challenge to climbers the

day before a holiday (7) 25 Wait to start the game (5) DOWN 01 Clients’ letters churned out from this? (7) 02 Longer period on the phone (9) 03 Stiff resolution shown in disputes (5) 04 The continual round of wage increases? (6) 05 A worker in oils perhaps (7) 06 A tower of strength (3) 07 A way to hold (5) 12 Local news broadcaster (4,5) 14 An illustration no longer large

enough (7) 16 Put out of mind (7) 17 Beast of burden given first aid

(6) 18 Copper band? (5) 20 Painter when old retires south

(5) 22 A French way to feel remorse

(3) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 01 Sphere of influence (5) 04 To damp (7) 08 A charge for a service (3) 09 Sometime soon (3,3,3) 10 Obliquely (7) 11 Insinuate (5) 13 Empty (6) 15 Manually (2,4) 18 Commonplace (5) 19 Endeavour (7) 21 Constant (9) 23 Inordinately (3) 24 Be available to act (5,2) 25 Unspoken (5) DOWN 01 Without premeditation (7) 02 Emerge without profit or loss (5,4) 03 To aim (5) 04 Violent disorder (6) 05 Senselessness (7) 06 Unit of weight (3) 07 Absolutely not (2,3) 12 Essential practical (9) 14 Badly brought up (3-4) 16 Northern US industrial city (7) 17 Equality in status (6) 18 Melancholy (5) 20 Firmly (5) 22 By way of (3)