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Here is an easy cryptic crossword that disobeys a few compiling rules – but why not now and again? Two letter words are not permitted unless there is a good reason for them, abbreviations are frowned on (but you should have no difficulty with these), proper nouns have to be signaled (they aren’t here but that should cause no difficulty either) and there has to be a fair proportion of black squares in a blocked grid. Here there is an imbalance with far too many white ones. That is the reason for all the other anomalies.  You can download a pdf or work on the interactive grid by clicking HERE. This will take you to the Crossword Compiler website.

Across

    1  Strangely proclaim CID post in body of political negotiators (10,5)

  10  Lie lazily around with lots of love and a bit of lust (4)

  11     Reassembled Lego is optimised for medics studying the way diseases spread and are controled (15)

  16  Worship regular land-boarder (5)

  17  Edge along lacking entropy and run without doing work (4)

  18  Progress permanently welcomes generative substance (5)

  19  Leader of country, in charge, supreme head of state forces (3)

  20  Unwrought metal in a mould – got in carelessly (5)

  21  Heroin rather than ecstasy in reprehensible casual party (4)

  22  Cans top to bottom this month (4, abbrev.)

  23  Slippery characters return before time in icy downpours (5)

  24     Revolutionary sailor, one who functions during strike (3)

  25  A Serb tempestuously produces a fencing sword (5)

  27  City house for nymph (4)

  29  Liquid note in hostilities (5)

  30  Virgin birth unusually in stone-age Paris? (15)

  34  Exquisite ordinary French brandy (4)

  35  Resolved tommies etc. elect a number of specially chosen members of parliament (6,9)

Down

    1  Be overcome by the effects of a colouring liquid (3)

    2  Splendour of a positive trip (5)

    3  Chart move subtly and outplay a superior opponent (9)

    4  Cassius Clay – the fourth caliph? (3)

    5  Implement learner dropped as well (3)

    6  Unlawful, sick and in charge of computing (7)

    7  Stupid person, college lecturer with overdose (4)

    8     Undisciplined trainee to acquaint with the present position (9)

    9  Rip up root in a tangle producing a hotchpotch (9)

  12  Before ends of time, dad catches ailment having little protuberances on the skin (9)

  13  Dutch or British (English) and the French old drone, (9)

  14  Yours truly (half of 29 in an objective sense) (2)

  15  Liquid sliding as the effects produced by fingers moving along a keyboard (9)

  19  Popular record of events without the French (7)

  26  Chronically annoy swirling bees before time (5)

  28  Lift an axe handle at Bannockburn? (4)

  29  Not quite Scots’ small (plural of 14 in a subjective sense) (2)

  31  Oh surely not Yoko! (3)

  32  Stone earth made primarily (3)

  33  Make sure of having a seat of dignity (3)

Here is last week’s solution. The theme was Monty Python’s Flying Circus:

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