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No. 495 by Cyclops
£100 prize to the first correct solution opened on 23rd May 2013.
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Across

1 "Teat tweaked by politician getting tense" crack (7)
5 Rough drink gets Conservative arse stuck in outskirts of Stepney (7)
10 Royal turfed out of long-term car park space (7,3)
11/4 Harry's not begun to get involved with potty Boris's lot (4,5)
12/13 Fairytale ending missing, sadly, with homely Brenda's lot? (3,5,6)
14 Conservative Right lives and breathes for a turning point (6)
17 Private Eye 'A' tour managed to get one knackered (4,3)
18 As a new US president used to be squeezed by Vice? (5,2)
21 Hardly an expert, on reflection, our pointless Business Secretary (6)
23 German woman, common female, dismissing, at the outset, Angela Merkel's sort of economic approach? (6)
24 Feed off the film actress's shit (8)
27 See 25dn. 28 Wow! Almost starkers – unusual, laughable means of taking piss out of the system (10)
29 Get rough rope wrapped round arsehole (7)
30 Labour leader's back, extremely narky with elected 'grand' doing what accused politicians invariably do? (7)
Down

2 Near-genital area temperature raised (5)
3 House right to cut kinky sex urges? (7)
4 See 11ac. 6 Type of tank top of English female, covered in Chianti, getting pissed (9)
7 Out of bed, casual with love, played fast and possibly loose? (7)
8 Pissed off CIA partly (9)
9 To do an Archer, sound like Daisy and keep your head down (3,3)
15 Bank punished over rise given to tosser, ultimately (9)
16 Blooming oil-producer makes tabloid loud and even more shallow (9)
19 Newspaper possibly want's Nick's guts – it's only natural (7)
20 Untidy constitution exposed state (6)
22 Flagship bad practice: drug-dropping politician (7)
25/27 How you have to take a bitter pill? (Police numbers cut) (5,4)
26 Starts to turf out Livingstone (of no real value)? (5)
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