Cryptic Crossword 1-24

Across

1. Unit head with social worker is deaf to reason? (7)

5. Czarina buried in boat under sea? Ok he dives there, then what? (7)

10. Rub elbows with Devil (4)

11. Politician with urgency resulting in harmony (10)

12. Fudge crepe (6)

13. Hallucinatory, pernicious yen possessing American soldiers (8)

14. Serenity is called cold in Paris? (4-5)

16. Brahms with a harp like stringed instrument went west to find emerald forming mineral (5)

17. Clay brick from dilapidated house (5)

19. How to make a donut from stone? (3-3-3)

23. Royal monkey with eastern and middle eastern currency (8)

24. Train the street gang (6)

26. Run criminal cliques into the river (10)

27. Department store pushcart overturned (4)

28. One who appreciates beauty in art, essentially sees the telegenic quality in it (7)

29. Guilty like an overdramatic journalist (7)

Down

2. Designer with a degree in 3D miniature art (7)

3. Test on given topic (5)

4. Unidentified impeccable type of energy (7)

6. Cripple the French with a bomb? (6)

7. Reseda luteola from ground shell of red yew seed? (5,4)

8. Mountbatten for example in her majesty’s service. Royal appointee to India during Independence (7)

9. Bohemian men transfixed by a model (13)

15. American soldiers accepting bribe, potentially on the house? Nonsense!! (9)

18. Banquet on ship hosting the spymaster in somberness (7)

20. Leading Australian (New South Wales) editor, released surprising results (7)

21. Paralyze peacekeepers with the bottle? (7)

22. Quiet!! quite abnormal card game (6)

25. Dance for sailor raised on booze? (5)

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