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No. 816 by Cyclops, Issue 1661
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Across
7 Getting leg over sailor love is deliberate damage! (8)
8 House messed up after Sun gets to dig the dirt? (6)
9 Raffles almost the lot off? (5)
10 Dome's changed name – that's familiar (5)
12/30ac. Leonard seen out to get a Reform UK member (3,8)
13 Harry bolted wine (7)
15 Bound to take in laundry ultimately for the Cambridge lot? (3,4)
17 Farage's thing? It's a nominal nightmare! (11)
21 Cloak from a time before phone messaging? (7)
23 Genial as two fellows and a bishop covered in piss (7)
24/14dn. Go through marriage ceremony? Piss off! (3,7)
26 Dubious pressure to oust Democrat, 'Chubby' (5)
28 Many accepting Labour Leader should be set aside (5)
29 Bill Clinton's no.1 love doctor 'flipped' Unity (6)
30 See 12ac.

Down
1 A failure to indulge can, if put in need (10)
2 'Settled last conflict': Trump's top loyal supporter (8)
3 One-time ejaculation, say, before one died (4)
4 Pence, sweetheart, is FAKE! (6)
5 It's not good to be upstanding (4)
6 Regally unsound, producing an adverse reaction (7)
7 Desert Fergie (stuffed by opening bits of horrendous apology)
(6)
11 A trauma covered up by the state – "it's cosmetic" (7)
14 See 24ac.
16 Half in limbo, I'm affected by Home Counties freeze (10)
18 Immoderate as a blow-up doll? (8)
19 Gnome's English with two farm animals (7)
20 TV pundit right to be kicked out of northern city (6)
22 Ireland welcomes politician's "not possessed by UK now" (6)
25 Possible feature of a dive's grub (4)
27 Pull Taylor Swift, say (4)


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