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Across
- 1
Forcibly remove some croustade (4)
- 3
What 5a 22a 11d 17a is all about? (5)
- 5, 22, 11d, 17
Broadcast break after highest bit of TV baking competition (3, 5, 7, 4-3)
- 9
Give trophy to Victoria for baked good (7)
- 10
Mostly without friend, call for dodgy financial practice (7)
- 11
Fruit-cakes end up here, except on the other side (5)
- 12
Iām outside countries in European Union, and they present a competition (3, 3, 3)
- 14
Suffer from incurable amputation (5)
- 17
Having trillions instead of billions, you would get to remove beloved TV show (4-3)
- 18
Washed a sad dish first ā about time! (7)
- 19
Editor highlighted backwards punctuation mark (5)
- 20
Hattie (or Norman) in front of Victoria cake judge (9)
- 22
Ali to rate baked good (5)
- 24
After pub, drunk 22d ā 5a 22a 11d 17a had a good one. (7)
- 25
You should keep 9 in this good 29 decoration (7)
- 27
In a field, you might see this showstopper plastered in the name of a phone company (3)
- 28, 17d
Lad eliminated from band after making these? (5, 7)
- 29
Some misbegotten transaction for 5a 22a 11d 17a without 7 11a, 12a. (4)
Down
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Evil creature, or head of channel (3)
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Brilliant Sue Perkins, cut off (5)
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Hesitation after poem to be sung in concert hall (5)
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Removing drug, thus trifle is ruined ā in need of 22d? (9)
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Cake ingredient, for example: gin (3)
- 7, 11a
Virgin fruit-cake maker (4, 5)
- 8
During initial technical challenge, cut edges off burnt cereal for 20 (8)
- 10
Stopped following social media account, becoming unpopular (7)
- 11
A kind of coup? Very. (7)
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Always established a stiff peak (7)
- 15
Fifty pound note among money to get Round 2, technically (9)
- 16
Mustering friend in arena (8)
- 17
Arses! At first BBC One tried to offer miserly sum. (7)
- 21
Budge around to remove errors (5)
- 22
Drunkenly sing after these? (4)
- 23
Send away timeless material (5)
- 24
Freeze and decorate cake (3)
- 26
Had understood Game of Thrones? (3)