Crossword 3
by Mackem

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Across

1 American union boss (7)
5 Missing conservative conscience in tomorrow's world (7)
9 No queen in backward, common Australia (4)
10 Things that happen in funny TV series (10)
12 Wounded greens pass Waterloo's victims (10)
13 No freudian ego - the french are lazy (4)
14 Long-dead but manages to perform twice (4)
15 Stone-worker's right - year for old-fashioned politeness (9)
18 Learning (using logic) how to prepare nosh (9)
20 Outrageously unreliable royal servant starts working for us (4)
23 Billy gets on mine (4)
25 Gave Basil some gloss (10)
26 Mountain range inspires a very soft note played before the female swiss-italian Americans (10)
27 Infra-red. Is in eye (4)
28 Well read with crazy rude tie (7)
29 Allows bosses to sack rule breaker (Ali, we hear) (7)

Down

2 Magnus, for example, is in nice land, I can confirm (9)
3 Successful candidate cheated (7)
4 What dons started doing in Milton Keynes (6)
6 Uncultured inland fisherman does it like this (8)
7 Can be first to die in confusion (7)
8 Put cocaine on anal cut (5)
11 Strange man hid shite in middle of dinner (3,4,4)
16 Fighting against tyranny by tigress in disguise (9)
17 Hannibal helped by John Hurt's man (8)
19 Not in prison, in hospital exterior (7)
21 Under British sounding reign, English country was a soviet republic (7)
22 Doesn't shake in middle of sixties TV pop show (6)
24 Tiger about equal with Vijay (2,3)