Daily Mail Cryptic #16240

2020-01-30

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Across

1a

Pal refusing to swim where oil tankers travel frequently (7,4)

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9a

Embroider doilies to put on a pedestal (7)

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10a

Painkiller troubles anyone with disease at first (7)

11a

Trim top off grass, just the top (3)

12a

Lacking energy, his poems displayed false reasoning (7)

13a

Barrister meets disheartened lady for a short time (7)

14a

Notice Oscar causing disturbance (3)

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15a

Writer's replacing amateur in game, making easy putt (5)

17a

Gunpowder ingredient can upset engineers (5)

18a

Joins sporting events (5)

20a

Drive over first of Grampian hills (5)

22a

Personnel manager employs furniture maker (3)

24a

US uncle's broken heart (7)

25a

Stimulating devout fashion designer (7)

26a

Duck starts to nibble in lake (3)

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27a

Pagan's kind, I gathered (7)

28a

Complete song, one all about daughter of King Minos (7)

29a

Pick young trainee originally in part as conductor (11)

Down

1d

He’s chosen copper compound that glows (15)

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2d

Bar trouble interrupting call (7)

3d

IT company controls each structural component (1,4)

4d

Banana cooked with red curry accompaniment (4,5)

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5d

Impromptu? To pianist this is more than idyllic (7)

6d

Leave runway, then head away across line and flip (3,3,3,6)

7d

Rest in cosiest armchair (6)

8d

Enter data again to do with face (6)

16d

Mother resents disentangling muddle (5,4)

18d

Where chap, say, gets introduction to equines (6)

19d

Tree is decaying, absorbing litres but unable to bear fruit (7)

21d

Probe English peculiarity briefly in New York (7)

23d

Notice Hare initially avoiding Mad Hatter's topic (6)

25d

Philosopher's climbing mountain top nonstop (5)