Cryptic No. 4 — cryptic crossword

A cryptic puzzle: 32 clues on a 13×13 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Lavish welcome for a Communist's dressing-down (3,6)
6. Guru's riddle conceals a form of address (3)
8. Rebellion, losing its head, is the issue (7)
11. Married a French girlfriend, who was a First Lady (5)
12. Female deer turning back, released (5)
13. Ron, rye drunk, gets cantankerous (6)
14. Great Lake, reportedly weird (5)
15. Where the road and the railway see eye to eye (5,8)
20. Bears wounded by a cavalryman's blade (5)
21. A period of time, but not for long (6)
24. A rice stew for Heather (5)
26. Grand harp arrangement makes a chart (5)
27. Level plot for a truck (7)
28. Leaders of Athens, Rome and Thebes show skill (3)
29. A sad lady's spoilt youth (5,4)

Down

1. Coral bar, free at sea (4)
2. Rider tumbled out, becoming less wet (5)
3. A team's remark, for the audience only (5)
4. Lurid old novel — a copper, and awful (5,8)
5. Hesitation among temporary staff produces outbursts (7)
6. Sam, posh painter on an island, was a warrior in old Japan (7)
7. Ice mountain in German, only the tip in view! (7)
9. Herd steered (5)
10. Ten from the south-east, on edge (5)
15. Nag, alas, cooked into an Italian dish (7)
16. Six, with support from the National Trust, are full of energy (7)
17. Pound of cheese cooked up for the spongers (7)
18. Trish is upset about her top (5)
19. English in Nice — a relative (5)
22. A lot of cattle, we hear, were tried (5)
23. Born into old Italian money, one of the star signs (5)
25. Daughter in the commercials says more (4)

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