Daily Mail Cryptic #16224

2020-01-08

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Across

1a

Victoria, for example, represents air and grace (8)

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5a

Pack up and quietly clear off (6)

9a

Board to start to name tiny items of seafood (8)

10a

Car racing on short racetrack leads to disaster (6)

12a

What reverberates from teenage choirs? (4)

13a

One way to get in expert to suppress tax on fish (6,4)

15a

One fellow and I dropped into new local joint for fun (13)

19a

Girl’s professional piece displays lack of balance (13)

23a

Costa Rica prepared to host British gymnastics (10)

25a

Plant found in sea area of Trafalgar (4)

28a

Swallow nested in housing estate (6)

29a

Short piece in paper about one Home Counties theatre (8)

30a

English books and diamonds are seductive (6)

31a

Bulb in yacht exploded next to harbour (8)

Down

1d

Company mole's office machine (6)

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2d

Start to reconnoitre every pass (5)

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3d

Trendy TV company gets shot of first jet (4)

4d

Organise coaching, doing without a pasta dish (7)

6d

A girl's not quite right (5)

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7d

Overseer said count should be amended (9)

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8d

Unfinished business - bathroom needs to be renovated (5,3)

11d

A legionnaire displays one like Pierre essentially? (4)

14d

Obscure brief quotation on jacket? (4)

15d

Perfectly fair entitlement (4,5)

16d

Back American leaving Portuguese resort (3)

17d

A ruler not entirely comparable (4)

18d

Glorify ladies dancing in immaculate frills (8)

20d

Secretary starts to try her way (4)

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21d

Parson's home, removing iron from dining room (7)

22d

Kindness is what’s unusual about Royal Marines (6)

24d

Unsophisticated graduate's in charge (5)

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26d

Bond grabs one extended rest (3,2)

27d

Record find? Not half! (4)