Across
1 Difficult dilemma reduces Goan to drink (7,5) GORDIAN KNOT (should be 7,4)
9 Material of war returned by Queen’s counsel (3,4) RAW SILK
10 A place to sleep by the lake for an exclusive group (7) COTERIE
11 Ski slope first to be included in physical education (5) PISTE
12 To set up a stable is hard, somehow (9) ESTABLISH
13 Metal that meets pressing needs (4) IRON
15 I bag one strange flower (7) BEGONIA
19 Tower, sharply sloping French article (7) STEEPLE
20 Notion expressed in an aside amorously (4) IDEA
24 Clout, famous subject matter in Carnegie’s work (9) INFLUENCE
25 Pine for twelve months starting now (5) YEARN
27 Pacify with a dish containing calcium (7) PLACATE
28 Month, was the eighth once (7) OCTOBER
29 Realtor gets English representative to accept condition (6,5) ESTATE AGENT
Down
1 Garments that a girl originally possesses (5) GOWNS
2 One who attacks an assistant in extremes of rigour (6) RAIDER
3 Kind of printer suitable for the wealthy and fast-moving set? (3,3) INK JET
4 The nuances figuring in pleasant bonds (8) NICETIES
5 What a schoolboy uses — a computer? (8) NOTEBOOK
6 Awfully frightened by fire, tried treatment (9) TERRIFIED
7 Obscure, like some crosswords (7) CRYPTIC
8 The flower of forgetfulness (5) LETHE
14 Passe and so has no one to go out with perhaps (3,2,4) OUT OF DATE
16 One who refuses to submit to authority sure can’t be reformed (8) RECUSANT
17 Kind of deep sound heard generally in a factory (8) PLANGENT
18 Attempt to accommodate girl in leather works (7) TANNERY
21 Biting cold! (5) NIPPY
22 Felt hat of a red design (6) FEDORA
23 Evergreen shrub that could try Mel severely (6) MYRTLE
26 Lou Costello’s partner in comedy (5) ABBOT (actually ABBOTT so should be 6 letters)
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