Daily Mail Cryptic #16250

2020-02-13

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Across

1a

Curtail urge to change land cultivation (11)

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9a

Unfair profit for fake bubbly (4,3)

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10a

Team at Murrayfield playing in fine fettle? First half only (7)

11a

Friend or enemy? Initially the latter (3)

12a

It's got to fluctuate around front of larynx (7)

13a

Spurs finally performed spread out (7)

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14a

Briefly dash round for nothing (3)

15a

Ambitious cast pursues rise? On the contrary (5)

17a

English chap's backing hit (5)

18a

Some predicted revolutionary drink (5)

20a

It may indicate a cold part of house, some say (5)

22a

Discharge a member of church (3)

24a

Fly across top of Andes in chopper (7)

25a

East Indies assembly adjourned indefinitely (4,3)

26a

Annoy Scottish church with no leader (3)

27a

Old and excitable but not very demanding (7)

28a

Irish excited to be in a low balloon (7)

29a

In which many authors write, but not you or me (5,6)

Down

1d

Response to school meant to defend college education (15)

2d

Radical surgery saves foot, broken in fall from here? (7)

3d

They're used by coppers restraining fellows (5)

4d

Lefty lies about his attitudes and habits (9)

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5d

Northern female, getting on in America, develops (7)

6d

Adherent won envy, having been misled at various times (5,3,3,4)

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7d

Cavalryman disposes of old flame-thrower (6)

8d

A single dagger regularly makes you twitchy (2,4)

16d

Caught napping, one's in debt after insurer's given up (9)

18d

Crazy mixed-up UK companies (6)

19d

Dish artist on the fiddle? Not quite (7)

21d

Craft turning up in bloke's oft-repeated slogans (7)

23d

Sinister member of house heads north in Cyprus (6)

25d

Butcher takes fish (5)

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