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36 minutes for this with 5dn and 13ac taking me over the 30 minute mark. A nice set of clues with only half a niggle and one clue perhaps not entirely understood.


Across
1FAWN - W (wicket) inside FAN (cooler)
3ADAMS APPLE - PP (very quietly in music) inside ADAM'S ALE (water)
10GROUNDSEL - ROUNDS (periods of fighting) inside GEL (set)
11CONGA - CONGo (major river almost), A
12RAFFISH - RAF (part of armed forces), -ISH (like). To my mind that leaves an F unaccounted for but I expect there are precedents for doubling up the last letter of a word when adding a suffix.
13ABSEIL - AB (rating in navy), SEIL (LIES, is prone reversed)
15HALL OF RESIDENCE - Anagram of CELL REFASHIONED
18A FAREWELL TO ARMS - The 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway and a reference to the famous statue by Alexandros of Antioch (qv 7dn yesterday)
21WINGED - WhINGED
23TOCCATA - TO, "CARTER". A virtuoso piece of music. Bach wrote possibly the most famous one with a fugue attached for organ. Edit: Thanks to ulaca for mentioning Vidor's Toccata which I suspect is more widely known these days than the Bach because of its popularity as a wedding voluntary e.g. at Will's & Kate's (nearly) two years ago.
26ICIER - ICI (here on foreign trip), ER (monarch)
27GANGPLANK - GANG (company), PLAN (scheme), K (Joseph K is the main character in Kafka's 'The Trial')
28KHYBER PASS - Anagram of PESKY RASH + Broke
29PELT - Triple definition: run, fall hard (like rain), trophy (as in hunting).


Down
1FIGUREHEAD
2WOOLF - WOOL (something spun), F(fine). Virginia Woolf 1882-1941.
4DISCHARGE - Anagram of Duke HIS GRACE
5MALTA - M (minute), ALTAr (table a bit short)
6ACCUSED - ACCUrSED
7PENSIONER - PENS (writes), 1 - ONE (one all), Report. An inmate of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
8EGAD - D (daughter), AGE (long time) all reversed. Definition 'My!'
9INDIGO - INDIa (sort of rubber almost), GO (success)
14MESS JACKET - MESS (sloppy food, as in Eton mess) , JACKET (sort of potato, in its skin)
16LIABILITY - LIe (not finishing pork pie - crs), ABILITY (capacity)
17SPLIT ENDS - SPLIT being the town and ENDS its boundaries.
19EN GARDE - GAR (cloth reversed), inside ENDEd (almost completed)
20OCCUPY - OC (officer), CUP (vessel), Y (unknown)
22DIG UP - GI (soldier) inside PUD (Yorkshire, say) all reversed.
24APACE - PA (old man) inside ACE (serve in tennis)
25PINK - In snooker the pink ball is worth 6 points and the green is worth 3. I'm not quite sure about the grazing reference. It may be something to do with ancient grazing rights which I've a vague idea has  come up before, but I could be confusing it with something else. If not that, then* PINK and 'graze' are both terms for a superficial wound. *Edit: I'll scrap that idea as I can't find any support for it and no-one has volunteered anything.

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