Daily Mail Cryptic #16319

2020-05-20

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Across

1a

Private fight between dukes in decline (8)

5a

A count angered flyer with big bill (6)

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9a

Home Counties case gets sleeping pill (8)

10a

Cut squeezing small firm's capital (6)

12a

Leave with new protective garment (4)

13a

Bar headgear in needle game (5,5)

15a

I'd grant poor European country's business zone (7,6)

19a

Anarchic plebs possibly their target? (7,6)

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23a

Reading out quote by engineers (10)

25a

Initially, house always had a concealed ditch (2,2)

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28a

A wife is at training and is expecting (6)

29a

Greek letter about rocky Crete and so on (2,6)

30a

Place in grave trouble not stopping English doctor (6)

31a

Affable Quaker lady ignores notice (8)

Down

1d

Prepare herb, a prescribed amount (6)

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2d

Women's Institute cook with single lady (5)

3d

Scottish engineer's time in Buddhist temple (4)

4d

Gunmen on the fiddle reduced pasta dish (7)

6d

Old poet eats duck egg (5)

7d

Pest shifted rock to block train (9)

8d

Nervous Welwyn journalist's bride perhaps (8)

11d

Taste last of pudding after function (4)

14d

Exotic garment retained by impresario (4)

15d

Cutting ditch with soldier (9)

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16d

Last piece of writer's trash rejected (3)

17d

Tweets emerging from Johnson government (4)

18d

Network ID menus are encrypted (8)

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20d

Large Oz truck's instrument (4)

21d

Farmyard boss's list has nothing in it (7)

22d

Pay state to jail US city Republican (6)

24d

Carry money - it's revered (5)

26d

He put in a plug in the van (5)

27d

Hand over grain, by the sound of it (4)