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Independent 10139

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Across

    1  Explicit source of sexy pictures (8)

    5  I begin cycling, becoming a great exponent (6)

  10  Award soldiers capturing cape in South Africa (5)

  11  Benign source of atoms, very dim, emitting energy with introduction of uranium (9)

  12  Got menu translated, having adopted different familiar language (6,6)

  15  Doctor playing cheerful piano sonata (9)

  17  Something flowery in lines capturing one account (5)

  18  Lightly gutted and trimmed outrageous song (5)

  20  Fighter happy it involves a suggestion of alternative (9)

  22  Soup, brash, offering lots of liquid, we hear (12)

  26  National symbol? Refuse to accept it, backing Scotland’s own (9)

  27  Old scold to speak at length (5)

  28  A new government occupying that former capital (6)

  29  Left some enthralled by legal document (8)

Down

    1  Illumination from lighting ultimately not that bright (4)

    2  Procession heading off for monument (4)

    3  Nightbird‘s cry enthralling old sailors (4,3)

    4  Ready to accept rule in no time? (5)

    6  Surprise – hard work extracting initial petroleum (4,3)

    7  Wickedness, say, settled with variable criminal status (10)

    8  Sixty hornets initially infesting plant’s heart (10)

    9  Popular trailing plant, a brute I trained over end of pergola (8)

  13  Suggest impounding the French taxi, offering no alternative (10)

  14  My building lacking roof, as it were – some amendment needed (10)

  16  Playing shows, including line to get laughter (8)

  19  City style given a shot (7)

  21  A Pole is one turning up as a woman (7)

  23  English TV channel picked up dodge (5)

  24  Scoundrel seizing power is transported (4)

  25  Paid to eat (4)

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