Daily Mail Cryptic #16254

2020-02-19

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Across

1a

Plant bug captivates a Northern Irish university (8)

5a

Fried chips containing variable medicine that's rare (6)

9a

Sort of blonde representative retrieved leather husband left (8)

10a

A limp disabled a graceful African runner (6)

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12a

Unprepossessing guy managed to drink litres (4)

13a

Course benefits a boy (5,5)

15a

Predictable changes (around ten) in list of elements (8,5)

19a

Pay author with big novel about love for ‘My Life Story’ (13)

23a

Son aspired to obtain ground unfit for sale (10)

25a

Jack arrests second person in authority (4)

28a

Ladies maybe with relatives pay a quick visit (4,2)

29a

Couple initially discover new menu food is processed here (8)

30a

Brief cast about last part of play (6)

31a

Headgear southern uni students put in parcel to be sent back (8)

Down

1d

Mineral dentists may use to spot upset in gum (6)

2d

River, big one in Asia's countryside (5)

3d

Succeeding by blocking goal (4)

4d

Experience onset of exhaustion in rough ground (7)

6d

Organic matter smells bad around you (5)

7d

Secure ring brought in by groom (9)

8d

US crime writer's name in Costa Rica (8)

11d

Henry provided current sound equipment (2,2)

14d

Copy Conservative member (4)

15d

Doctors study this annually with religious subject (not Eastern) (9)

16d

Occasionally doing an excavation (3)

17d

Party pooper's mistake (4)

18d

Sign on staff to play scales in B and F (4,4)

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20d

Regularly boil miso for spicy stew (4)

21d

Deer born in EU kept in Gibraltar? (7)

22d

Collect alcohol in party (4,2)

24d

Small trick takes in one child (5)

26d

Sort of 24 dealing with sound (5)

27d

One old meandering star (4)