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Times 25721 - if I had a million 22s

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Solving time : 20:32 on the club timer with more than half of it unraveling that bottom left hand side, mostly held up by the honking great cryptic definition of a word I'd never heard of at 22 across. At the finish I had to go check and it is in both Collins and Chambers, but to me it's a word too obscure to clue using a cryptic definition.

I was also caught out by one of the older tricks in the book at 15 down and was kicking myself there. At the end of things I was second on the leaderboard, so I suspect I am not going to be the only one pulled in to the tricks of the setter.

Away we go...

Across
1REPAST: PA in REST
4WREATHES: (WEATHERS)*
10AMARYLLIS: A MARY, then SILL reversed
11TON(fashion),ER(head lady, the Queen)
12LOO(ked): or possibly LOO(med)
13ON THE SQUARE: double definition, which reminded me of "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life"
14TIPCAT: 1,PC in T(h)AT. Apparently this doesn't involve upending an actual mouser
16TEACH-IN: EACH in TIN
19ALMANAC: MAN(chap) in AL(gangster),AC(bill)
20BUYOUT: YOU in BUT
22PETRODOLLAR: cryptic definition
25E,GO: GO was very popular amongst students at Melbourne Uni in the late 80s
26GENOA: double definition (it's also a type of salami)
27(w)INTE(r),GRAND - mathematical function
28ROAD TEST: (TREATS,DO)*
29INFEST: sounds like INN, then FEAST without the A(vailable)
 
Down
1REALLY: E in RALLY - as an expression of sarcasm
2PLATONISM: TO in PLAN, then IS, M(etaphysics)
3SAY-SO: hidden
5RESPECT,ABILITY
6ANTIQUARY: A,(QUAINT)*,RY
7HENNA: HEN(layer, of eggs), over N(atural),A(ttractiveness)
8SERGE,ANT
9PLATE TECTONICS: 1 in (LATEST,CONCEPT)*
15CONSONANT: since I is not a consonant, it's a vowel
17HOUSEMATE: (MOUSE)* in HATE
18RAMPAGER: RAGER grabbing A,MP
21HOLD IT: OLD in HIT
23TANKA: sounds like TANKER
24REGAN: take the A out of REAGAN for Lear's daughter

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