Cryptic #0002
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  •  7  Composer due but his ex is missing doctor  (9)

  •  8 & 2          Is Gerry's song confusing? Er, better ask!  (5,6)

  • 10 "Have mercy on me sire - bible study is complicated!"  (8)

  • 11 Villa-Lobos' laments about Greek dance  (6)

  • 12 See 22

  • 13 Composer sees main fault  (8)

  • 15 Cheated horribly at bowing technique  (7)

  • 17 A soldier volunteers to play restlessly  (7)

  • 20 Composer reversed in...in a gap!  (8)

  • 22 & 12           Planet on which rodents backed guitar hero  (4,4)

  • 25 'Rap Fiasco' created by knot he tied  (3,3)

  • 26a & 24d                Excited by band that wept over its anxieties  (4,4,5)

  • 27 See 16 Down

  • 28 Low end misery pipe damages babe's lugs  (4,5)

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  •  1  Greek letter on accurate sound (5)

  •  2  See 8 Across

  •  3  Planet of which Gustav wrote a song?  (3,5)

  •  4 & 19            “I had me raw hay!” - US soldier’s strange melancholy song  (1,5,1,7)

  •  5  Drummer made model Rita sob (8)

  •  6  To me, omens somehow signal a lifting of the spirits  (4,5)

  •  9  "Cats" creates operatic divisions (4)

  • 14 Music lover has lead for brains  (9)

  • 16d & 27a                Trouvere is the first man of the French orchestra  (4,2,2,5)

  • 18 Renaissance composer gives ear away  (8)

  • 19 See 4

  • 21 Charles wrote about New York's recreation area at night  (4)

  • 23 University replaced 11 across' love for singers  (6)

  • 24 See 26 Across

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