Cryptic Crossword Across 1.
Quiet man making a drink (6)
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Arm supported? Troubling (8)
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Buoyant band in an apartment (6)
10. Six left aboard jumbo alert (8) 12. Lies about redhead chafing (8) 13. The majority of boys get by (6) 15. Flower back in water? Hurrah! (4) 16. Golfer going back around wicked city (7) 20. Horse taking short nap at last (7) 21. Dread of losing face first, one hears (4)
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25. God has skinned Luigi's chicken! (6)
Nothing left? Acceptable (3,5)
17. Many sob in surgery, having gotten sick (8)
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A lack of hatred in ruins (6)
18. Agree Ned turned traitor (8)
Line of cabs, the first taken (4)
19. Scrap of newspaper (tabloid guys acquired) (8) 22. My introduction to an Aberdonian luck-bringer (6)
26. Snigger, ordered around by 5. short poet (8) 28. Money mostly going on footwear and robes (8)
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29. He covers short arms in Zimbabwe (6)
Appropriate tubas lie around (8)
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30. Charm of a slim cast wearing brown (8)
Lookers anger outspoken prophet! (6)
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Hear song ending heartbreak (6)
31. I nsect eleven leaders choose (6) Down 1.
Alien fronds at university (8)
11. Pest first to locate wild animal (7)
23. Scrap metal (lead loser put out) (6) 24. Property in the heart of Crete, say (6)
27. Fine piece of braised vegetable (4) 14. Lost male leader rings me up (7) Solution in next month’s edition 78