Crossword for Sat, 25/Feb/2017

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Across
1: Story of a cold nobleman (7)

3: Destroying Bibles, I'm left without drinks (7)

7: Shape up at invading Congo Free State (7)

10: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

11: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

12: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

13: A small rig is something worth having (5)

15: Rolling wave rolls into Rolling Stones song (3,3,4,3)

18: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

22: Accommodate bear (3,2)

23: Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)

24: I've lost struggle (3)

26: Yellow fowl (7)

28: Hospital doctors bury bridge partners (7)

29: Communist air force is entertained - entertained splendidly (7)

30: Call back upstart by the Spanish king of old Portugal (7)

Down
1: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

2: Add a letter to get the smell of fish (5)

4: Behind and down and out (3)

5: Building for owl and treble changes? (4,5)

6: Two daughters involved in sales of riding equipment (7)

8: Draw a stomach uprising (3)

9: A girl in distress, sought by knights (5)

13: Requires five kills, or a single accurate shot. (3)

14: Sounds like a bright child (3).

16: Young chap gets a slice of fish (9)

17: Author and actress receiving gold choker, originally (7)

19: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).

20: Perfect counter-spy equipment (3)

21: Dark mysterious thing (5)

23: I hear mantas and surface (5)

24: Vicar regularly outdated technology (1.1.1.)

25: Content little rest for the painter (5)

27: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)





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