Cryptic crossword - The Scotsman 09/06/15

Tuesday’s puzzle
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ACROSS

1 Estimate of lending risk to attribute to ordinary seaman (6,6)

9 Send back fat cheese delivered in shiny material (7)

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10 Outflow of shower in the German housing (7)

11 Comfort request public library carried out (4)

12 Scare away from area of land (5)

13 Instructed to have rung bell loudly (4)

16 Something like bronze girl found in two antiques (3,4)

17 Must art be laid out in bed? (7)

18 Having had complaint, doubled over and seized (7)

21 Keep repeating oneself about love: this may ensure a good catch (7)

23 Play the ghost (headless) of giddy relative (4)

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24 and 25 Volume produced by youngster in charge of payment at the time (5,4)

28 Slightly dirty film, we hear, seen on raw meat (7)

29 Those concerned in equal dead heats (7)

30 Plant that purifies sea water is hastily nationalised (12)

DOWN

2 Declined to waste a penny (7)

3 Shades of deceased independence vote? (4)

4 Red can’t be easily hypnotised (7)

5 Append religious education to shipboard talk (7)

6 Short slanted script you first failed to find in Mediterranean country (4)

7 Accelerate sharply to the left with hole in side of ship (7)

8 Some printed a version which is the stronger force (12)

9 Red Army retreat that may see so if going out like a lion (3,4,5)

14 Emergency call broadcast around at university for nourishing foods (5)

15 Wanderer finds trace of retiring monk (5)

19 Deign or otherwise to have been passed over (7)

20 Vessel goes face-about daily (7)

21 Grip needed for very sharp bend (7)

22 More than two pounds lost, no lie, OK? (3,4)

26 The man’s snake starts to sibilate (4)

27 Worry about guitar section (4)

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