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Beelzebub 983

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Other pairs of crossing unclued answers each comprise a 26 with a 30.

ACROSS

1              Man with book interrupting courses in college areas (8, 2 words)

6              Joint given curved shape with leg restraint (4)

11           Last of muck left on ditch in mining area (8)

13           Is impounding the writer’s reactive chemicals (6)

14           Aristocrat not bitter about gold (6)

15           Tenses, as it’s involved bringing in soldiers (7)

17           No one going round medical officer’s departments (5)

23           Country’s leader cut short imprisoning Liberal (5)

24           Transmitters: things using up no power? (7)

25           Nothing direct, nothing in opera (6)

27           Sounds of anger increase – ends in real viciousness (6)

29           Fellow surveying certain delivery, shifting article (8)

31           Experience King’s hunt (4)

32           Set aside old verse – mistake with some poetry (8)

DOWN

1              Stimulant upset one rare horse (4)

3              Old maids, bubbly things, surrounding working writer (10)

4              Liberate old rears, not new? They might (8)

5              Confess about the old straining (6)

7              Politician heads for erotic unseemly frolic (6)

9              Boss supports cutting power for scholars (8)

12           Toff, note, filling opportunity to become supporter of hospital work (10, 2 words)

15           Deserts? Science graduate gets nothing in shifting sand (8)

16           Holy woman adopting Greek character, one way or another (8)

20           Female’s attachment to pink not initially strong (6)

21           Variety of clover displaying attractive surfaces (6)

28           Channel being allowed to rise around yard (4)

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