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Unpublished Beelzebub 12

ACROSS

1              Girl keeps on wasting time (4)

4              Old farm animal nonsense leading to complaint (8)

10           Superbly cut, holding in red stone (10, 2 words)

11           Regret intervening in tense issue backing solar observation (8, 2 words)

13           Woman supporting dependant about church from now (12)

15           Open central section of flags (5)

17           Horse turning back in review (5)

18           Suspect paper will involve current end of work for me (7)

20           Light and heavy tread provided by Arab (7)

21           Consult about very popular fishing gear (5)

22           Marsh, perhaps, doing for tree (5)

25           Suffers trial after wrecking stage in property purchase (12, 2 words)

26           Spirit in lace redefined ballet step (8)

27           Revival of old piece involves greeting rare instrument (10)

28           Cunning bid-maker: unknown clubs and hearts I indicated in attention grabber (8)

29           Reptile helping to complete my studies (4)

DOWN

1              String instrument operated, including hand from Bach, say (8)

2              Green card I arranged, stimulating activity (10)

3              Expert with a lot of money: most celebrated, I see (12)

4              Old cheat, half-heartedly aggrieved (5)

5              At same level if accepted by standard applied to University (7)

6              No source of sweetness, on reflection (5)

7              Girl in group audibly made fun of chocolate cake at first (12, 2 words)

8              Gossip galoot picked up about high-class old aristocrat (8)

9              Local militia, fairly rattled, lacking guts (4)

12           Really into dancing in Chinese style? (10)

14           Cricketers heading off coarse notorious government official (8)

16           Points South in vain (8)

19           Young men, after falling back, realise about fellow in lead (7)

23           Source of poison cut down in mountainous area (5)

24           Demon? All alarmed in some area (5)

25           Fine to cut turkey (4)

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