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ACROSS
9 Serving hot tray to Husky (7)
10 Breaks in as a theologian above talks without substance (7)
11 Cutback on left axis, try with new figure (7)
12 Discover a new depth inside and primarily look for a fish (4,3)
13 Worker seen with nurse at a leading lobotomist before birth (9)
15 Till last three characters return, it will be dark (5)
16 Platelayer in Central Railway, takes a new name after conversion (7)
19 Improved employees in Enforcement Directorate executed heartlessly (7)
20 Free at gunpoint, untied, got out (5)
21 Rural area in two states (2-7)
25 Relative from the father's side is acting outside a building (7)
26 Ultimately got wife to come to ball and advance to dance (3-4)
28 Leh party in which Regina went after Victor serving French port (2,5)
29 Revive used pair daughter discarded, with reconstruction (7)
DOWN
1 Ideal place is Andaman & Nicobar perhaps with work at mainland frequently (6)
2 Jewellery concealed in the farm letterbox (6)
3 Husband and short girl put to death (4)
4 Young swan in captivity gutted, good catch (6)
5 Break up? Settle after husband finally shares inholdings in the suburbs (8)
6 Mostly vans are out to get redesigned with a new style of decoration (3,7)
7 Requested to include toll in copy before first despatch (8)
8 Isobel's broke, 50% lost, behind schedule, deserted and ostracized (8)
14 I've backed Tom in a neutral arrangement to be appointed to office (10)
16 Sterling gold stored initially in locked dogwood can (8)
17 The writer spiralled after new drug as a remedy for grief (8)
18 Aunts circle around church elders primarily in dances (8)
22 Drawback after CT caught a cord (6)
23 Beginning to dress (ignoring recipe) potato (6)
24 Youth leader at institute starting to prepare to go and express elation (6)
27 Essentially programme belongs to us (4)
