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Please note that all spellings use British English.
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Across
- 1. Port has bearing on successions. (6)
- 5. Place where headless agree with backwards commission. (6)
- 10. Bolshevik going after cardinal taints part of Polish trilogy. (5,7,3)
- 11. Awful actor from Zagreb, perhaps. (5)
- 12. Fighter comes out of vase when nitrogen is removed. (3)
- 13. May day confusion led by Saint Viet, Kraków's Gothic sculptor. (5)
- 14. Old German put dressing on Metodius—and endlessly! (7)
- 16. Main bum constrains Gore with one. (4,3)
- 18. Tender academic backed umpire. (7)
- 20. Blair mentioned in loveless memo—a symbol of something bigger. (7)
- 23. Stirred ale, for example, thus going two under. (5)
- 24. Old Hebrew month is endless nonsense. (3)
- 25. Allegedly, a saucy Easterner! (5)
- 26. See 29
- 27. Biro contains unstable currency from one of these states! (6)
- 29, 26. Manic German hit City suits—a hundred vanishing perhaps is genocide. (6,7,8)
Down
- 2. Slobo in the West, for example, murders a great parson who possesses no French. (7,3,5)
- 3. Incapable of doing job in record time at first. (5)
- 4. Stalin's number one at the moment stands by bloke—he dreads the thaw coming. (8)
- 5. An antipodean state onto itself! (7)
- 6. Hearing things that have a point gets you money. (5)
- 7. Central Europe as a hygienic way of preventing red stuff from spreading? (6,9)
- 8. Supplies sold on exchange. (6)
- 9. Poem by Nazi troops gets top grade by Black Sea. (6)
- 15. Supposition about Bond boss sparks off protests. (3)
- 17. Bill is part of play. (3)
- 18. Scrunched up wrapper with some softness taken out before 1939. (6)
- 19. What the Czechs famously gave to English in charge of acting like a machine. (7)
- 20. Gangster's girl—American, with American money—is spineless creature. (7)
- 22. Reportedly, this girl's death makes her a cause célèbre. (6)
- 24. Surrealist painter is wrapped round German magazine. (5)
- 26. I chat about this politician. (5)
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Moving on:
