Daily Mail Cryptic #16294

2020-04-15

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Across

1a

Identical supernatural creature gets into a mess somehow (8)

5a

Gallery in gaol designed to house soldier (6)

9a

Bill's seen flounders, losing line in sound (8)

10a

Flower's wild, lacking nitrogen (6)

12a

Isle's residents give crew a kiss (4)

13a

Roguish head of college impresses business minister (10)

15a

Engineer rescued hero at home in row (8,5)

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19a

New cocktail of rum and sherry - yes, they induce sleep (7,6)

23a

Prance about with gun, beginning to engender contempt (10)

25a

Tease topless relative (4)

28a

Country's banks abandoned former PM (6)

29a

Fancy European fraud taking in Italian city briefly (8)

30a

Hot spring damaged eyes in Greece (6)

31a

Coin’s copper core? (8)

Down

1d

Open this in spell in plant producing oil (6)

2d

Fabric's brand name (5)

3d

Lose one's balance, knocking over lager (4)

4d

Woman swallows a laxative initially for fever (7)

6d

Cutting from lonicera held in reserve (2,3)

7d

Irons perhaps, and where they're used (4,5)

8d

One at meeting at place to use one of 7, about to finish (8)

11d

Oxford, say, excelled without coxswain finally (4)

14d

Loyal characters regularly avoiding torture (4)

15d

Desperately try twice with OAP to find right group (4,5)

16d

Former police brought up dog (3)

17d

Greek poet's last to leave residence (4)

18d

A French ornament missing a 14 (8)

20d

Long endless period (4)

21d

Journalist noticed tool (7)

22d

Scattered items around rear of city block (6)

24d

Look into, for example, raising birds (5)

26d

Labour group first to avoid digital problem (5)

27d

Swimmers complain (4)