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ACROSS
- 1 Source of cash in company's first bid (6)
- 5 Arrangement of Sondheim being purely for pleasure (8)
- 9 Influential figure I note controlling senior officer (4)
- 10 Religious observance: 20 accepted it in a church (3,2,5)
- 11 Expert not entirely accepting representation of folly in how game starts (5-3)
- 12 Believe Welsh town will accommodate king after ditching baron (6)
- 13 Car - recalled the best sort after one disembarks (4)
- 15 Red tuna apparently like a crab (3-7)
- 17 Strain hard to encircle outside of tower (historic fortress) (10)
- 20 Noble part of family (but only part) (4)
- 22 Contemporary of 8 to sanction talk at table (6)
- 24 Plant in river in the past blocking lake (8)
- 26 One showcased recordings of gas circulating in pubs (10)
- 27 Meat product more than enough for this old ruler (4)
- 28 It's a ship, guaranteed (8)
- 29 Half-heartedly fund, returning charge? That's sweet (6)
DOWN
- 2 Block rise of company with hint about Director (7)
- 3 Force - considering everything - to be curtailed as a last resort (5)
- 4 Ignore half of answer, showing error in deduction (9)
- 5 Detestable expression of surprise applied to flute playing (7)
- 6 Put off fellow stabbing game animals (5)
- 7 Negligible reason not to honour cheque? (2-7)
- 8 Former African politician having difficulty supporting position (7)
- 14 Conservative city-dweller receiving Government refusal as "from the Stone Age" (3-6)
- 16 Mistakenly heading off that soldier I ignored in military town (9)
- 18 Worker associated with whisky (drink much loved in France) (7)
- 19 Superficial American author not popular in our day (7)
- 21 Landholder's female rival put up charge (7)
- 23 Article set to deliver financial sponsor (5)
- 25 Remote facilities - in a field, initially (5)