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Across
1 Witness to examine a hill (8) TESTATOR wrong clue?
5 Bill sound to be playing a part (6) ACTING
10 Critic, an unsolicited caller (7) KNOCKER
11 Tapa cloth is such a fabric (7) UNWOVEN
12 Merchant recalls edit substituting ‘centre’ with ‘right’ (6) TRADER
13 Silver bedding shining (8) AGLITTER
15 Repeat from noble Cholas (4) ECHO
16 One might dip into it to get some key work done (6,4)
18 Without human responses this study cannot be conducted (10)
20 Gridman backs one student — a boy (4) EMIL
23 Publicist gets certain words in axioms (8) PROVERBS
24 Uncle Richard’s minister (6) CLERIC
26 Too old (7) OVERAGE
27 Artist with instrument not entirely used to make a pasta dish (7) RAVIOLI
28 Figurehead to steer roughly? Rot! (6) FESTER
29 Horse towering in Mumbai suburb (8) STALLION
Down
1 Finally let people know by an uncovering (4,3,5,3) TAKE THE WRAPS OFF
2 Bear with Tom’s rolling with endless pain (7) STOMACH
3 Don’t begin to fret over primarily trivial ornament (6) ANKLET
4 Partially took rare vegetable (4) OKRA
6 Covers for hundred and fifty steeped in debts (8)
7 Where an artificial fertilisation might take place (2,5) IN VITRO
8 When candidates are chosen in all or most constituencies (7,8) GENERAL ELECTION
9 Yet these expenses have to come into the books (9)
14 This has one but long words have more of these (9) SYLLABLES
17 Cattle on time in a part of the ship (8) STEERAGE
19 They worship Senior coming up to a doer’s play (7) ADORERS
21 Radio pioneer to spoil for exotic icon (7) MARCONI
22 Yoke a leading villain in unhealthy cell (6) CLAVEL
25 Worry about ornamental work (4) FRET