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Thirteen solutions have the same short word, sometimes but not always at the start. This short word is absent from the subsidiary part of the clue.   

 Across  

    1  Highly ornamented bits of rose with edible tuber (6)  

    4  Glibness about a cause of happiness (8)  

  10  A medicine that invigorates schizophrenic affected by states of immobility (9)  

  11  Oddly plod like a three step and hop dance (5)  

  12  One of blue blood or even blood-red (4)  

  13  Metric unit begins coding each new term if listed in the right encryption (10)  

  15  Disperse a cubic metre of timber without energy (7)  

  16  Gold or silver coins of the French dollar (6)  

  19  Pincer-like tools produce disguised perils (6)  

  21  Provided food for eastern revolutionary (7)  

  23  Pronounce judgement on publicity with little Jewess (10)  

  25  Serenity of feelings embraced by a logical mind (4)  

  27  Projection that holds together large number taking in small number (5)  

  28  Culture oddly ends unicorns (9)  

  29  Trees’ age represented in pieces of shelved furniture (8)  

  30  Activity of the intellect producing strange noises (6)  

Down  

    1  Heedless of consequences demonstrated by wreck – lesson not learned! (8)  

    2  Hesitation then howl like a new baby and yowl (9)  

    3  Old coal and timber vessels in north-east Sweden (4)  

    5  Situated in a particular spot Scots loved (7)  

    6  Earnestly beg for amounts of food provided without end (10)  

    7  Little island is rented out (5)  

    8  Shredding utensil sounding more significant (6)  

    9  Earned frantically to make lovable (6)  

  14  Presence at jig two hours before midnight? (10)  

  17  Web-footed emydidae transpire in an unusual way (9)  

  18  Dot mends assortment of unusual leftovers (8)  

  20  Generate from bodily fluids and place out of sight (7)  

  21  Cord for tying a little boat back (6)  

  22  Neat taking a young sow back (6)  

  24  Military government providing revolutionary jaunt (5)  

  26  Roman circle (4)  

Here is last week’s solution.  

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