Daily Mail Cryptic #16284

2020-04-01

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Across

1a

Carve modern copy in home counties (8)

5a

After German, Alice translated another language (6)

9a

Monarch's orbs reported to be extra large (4,4)

10a

Put a cross next to it when playing for nothing (6)

12a

Always the day before the middle of March (4)

13a

Heathrow checkers increased, introducing about 100 (6,4)

15a

Offered to collect card? That's kind (13)

19a

Flogging the best dairy product (8,5)

23a

A key Satie transposed after tense rest (4,2,4)

25a

One who's principally known in Wellington institute? (4)

28a

Two blokes in a tangle (6)

29a

Not a good time to engage in banter (8)

30a

It’s hard to find just what's required in artillery lines (6)

31a

Affair distressing lady? True (8)

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Down

1d

Printer in plane carrying king (3,3)

2d

Maybe sight Poles going in to watch (5)

3d

Trick American dealing with fences (4)

4d

Strange place to barter in Turkey, some might say (7)

6d

Stay away from a vacant space (5)

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7d

Busy girl at home almost revealing maths aid (9)

8d

Spooner's funny aspect talked about all over town (8)

11d

Press turn up and keep quiet (4)

14d

Party in the north retains one still (4)

15d

Con man's fake tickets taking in radical Republican (9)

16d

Scrap first half of stew (3)

17d

Give assistance to a Yankee, perhaps (4)

18d

Cheat wrote about luring in chap (3,5)

20d

Victor abandons book for Christmas (4)

21d

Sweet sauce celeb put in cattle food (7)

22d

Order rise to stop writer’s poverty (6)

24d

Some container traffic's unable to move (5)

26d

Cross independent judge (5)

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27d

What's prescribed for patient initially unwell? (4)