Daily Mail Cryptic #16292

2020-04-13

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Across

1a

Attractive thing in kitchen gifted German cooked (6,6)

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8a

Criticise good area with no river but vast amount of land once (7)

9a

County university preserves a bone one's seen in Canada (7)

11a

Radio part of circuit (10)

12a

It's bound to interest every director at first (4)

14a

Four letters in a row one hid in tree in gangster movie (4,4)

16a

Bar student learned with difficulty to inspire love (6)

17a

Teacher's withdrawn sign of approval (3)

19a

Edinburgh girl's story about a ship (6)

21a

Brussels administrator or curate going astray (8)

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24a

Cut back front of morning paper (4)

25a

Passionate ladies maybe start to dream in breeding ground (3,7)

27a

Attack dried up when gun backfired inside (7)

28a

Paper boss provided rocks for building (7)

29a

It’s awkward to stop Republican fool entering eastern China (12)

Down

1d

Cool guy talked about what admirers send him (3,4)

2d

Annie's a bit distressed when she's not there (2,8)

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3d

Try popular entertaining task designed for kid perhaps (8)

4d

French leader's sign of stress (6)

5d

Savage hoists a fragment of Jolly Roger (4)

6d

Regular withdrawal of English books on Polish uprising (3,4)

7d

Spray fuel between headlands in display of hostility (12)

10d

Replacement cast's essays supporting foreign articles (12)

13d

Indian moon represented advancing old age (4,6)

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15d

About to eat ordinary seafood (3)

18d

Mark put in fancy sunbeds in folly (8)

20d

Wembley, for instance? It’s a mainly muddy ground (7)

22d

Communist faction's flyer (7)

23d

Tough problem involves posh show-off (6)

26d

Chrysalis, say, increased during each year (4)