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Cryptic crossword No 29,696

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1 across. Outstanding rule about dead fascist, as his friends called him? 6 letters.
5 across. Intellectual rebel has accident with car. 8 letters.
9 across. Almost deceived at tea dance. 8 letters.
10 across. Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation. 6 letters.
11 across. Bird entered the water the far side of the pond. 4 letters.
12 across. Nursing a broken knee, turn to worship now in American style. 10 letters.
13 across. One greeting king is servile, not unpleasant. 6 letters.
14 across. The centre of Bangor? 8 letters.
16 across. Costing a bomb to be sceptical. 8 letters.
19 across. I stole Christmas, and grimace at church. 6 letters.
21 across. Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service. 10 letters.
23 across. Start off speaking with grit. 4 letters.
24 across. Charge a line of waiters has announced. 6 letters.
25 across. Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled. 8 letters.
26 across. Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan. 8 letters.
27 across. Under compulsion, you make irregular patterns. 3-3 letters.
2 down. School cane, a stinger, wielded across Charlie, a paradoxical creature. 12 letters and 3 letters.
3 down. Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers. 7 letters.
4 down. Comic part performed for three-ha’pence once. 9 letters.
5 down. Won everything when up, having lost everything when out. 7 letters.
6 down. A survey run, and behold! 5 letters.
7 down. Use live computer image of suspect with name attached. 7 letters.
8 down. That’s a threat of retaliation in chess, for example. 1 letters, 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 4 letters.
15 down. Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants. 6 letters and 3 letters.
17 down. Old bridge, not a tube. 7 letters.
18 down. Start to cultivate non-native tree, its heart extracted for coffee substitute. 7 letters.
20 down. Introduce oxygen, burning part of church. 7 letters.
22 down. Ring area of the kidneys, not large. 5 letters.
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