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ACROSS

1 One metal two colours I see (10)

6 Southern wine is a hole, I hear, the beast (4)

10 Carps on a little bit (5)

11 See the lens on board, though unconscious (9)

12 Damn lass on the continent (8)

13 Improve after noon (5)

15 Around the side with hundreds the insect may react (7)

17 Disloyalty of the senator (7)

19 Leaves here with a crown (7)

21 Feel line, I hear (3-4)
22 I am not A, with you I hear it soak (5)
24 Aren't cut short? (8)
27 Live here on board (5-4)
28 See there, the French say there's oil in Virginia (5)
29 South of Houston Street from New York to London town (4)
30 Dry grannies with a bitter taste (10)


DOWN
1 A thousand in the hearth for a brew (4)
2 A tall tale of how to avert the rain (9)
3 Chew this for love around twenty two over seven (5)
4 Begin again about the southern pie (7)
5 Mend its attitude (4-3)
7 A weighty honour towards 4:30 (5)
8 I need cress in my houses (10)
9 Indulgent Declan has made his mark (8)
14 Legend illuminators on stage (10)
16 Like a beast in rut, as the editor learnt (8)
18 As a holy one, lit about in Oriental rice liquor (9)
20 Bring back the highest charges for the magic drinks (7)
21 One hundred flock to the North (7)
23 Half a century goes red in the shrub (5)
25 Spanish sparkler goes north to the county (5)
26 Without us the wealth will be about to stop (4)

Full Solution
ACROSS


1 monochrome.

MONO CHROME

6 boar.

BOAR [ S WINE ]

10 scrap.

CARPS [ anagram]

11 senseless.

SEE LENS SS [anagram]

12 landmass.

DAMN LASS [anagram]

13 amend.

AM END

15 oxidant.

O XI D ANT

17 treason.

SENATOR [ anagram]

19 treetop.

TREETOP

21 cat-like.

CAT-LIKE

22 imbue.

I'M B UE

24 truncate.

ARENT CUT [anagram]

27 house-boat.

HOUSE BOAT

28 voilà.

V OIL A

29 Soho.

SO HO

30 astringent.

TT GRANNIES [ anagram ]


DOWN

1 mash.

M ASH

2 narrative.

AVERT RAIN [narrative]

3 cupid.

CU [PI] D

4 restart.

STARTERS [anagram]

5 mind-set.

MEND ITS [anagram]

7 obese.

OBE SE

8 residences.

I NEED CRESS [ anagram]

9 decadent.

DEC A DENT

14 footlights.

FOOT LIGHTS

16 antlered.

RED TALENT [anagram]

18 saintlike.

SA [IN + TLI ] KE

20 potions.

POT IONS

21 cluster.

C + ULSTER [anagram]

23 blush.

B [ L ] USH

25 Cavan.

CAVA N

26 halt.

[WE] ALTH


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