Daily Mail Cryptic #16359

2020-07-15

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Across

1a

Grave remedy vet gives to bedraggled moggy? (8)

5a

Snack, a favourite in greyhound stadium? (3,3)

9a

Court building, big one, containing duke's fuel store (8)

10a

Shelter from sea battle once, ceding power (4,2)

12a

Part of film dealing with the Spanish (4)

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13a

Insert hand in a 12 to gain access (10)

15a

Busy river parasites provide around one hundred (6,7)

19a

It stops scaling tree after snow flurries (5,8)

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23a

Thorough old workers' colony cherishes gold stone (10)

25a

Government's arguing about specialist (4)

28a

Correct line adopted by priest (6)

29a

Cut tree back to win English game (8)

30a

One youngster's hooked by an old martial art (6)

31a

Like following planet Mercury, source of jack-o'-lantern (5,3)

Down

1d

Playwright, one without bottle? (6)

2d

Old lines absent from novelist's turn of phrase (5)

3d

Reproduce work in city lacking it (4)

4d

Doctor admits large ring’s pleasing on the ear (7)

6d

Ended tango in public (5)

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7d

Noise ruined racing conveyance for meals-on-wheels? (6,3)

8d

Travel round Spain with setter to test some maths (8)

11d

See round this writer's wedding car maybe (4)

14d

Slight feature of drunk's speech? (4)

15d

Ground for Kent opener's haymaker (9)

16d

Cancel fixture involving German XI (3)

17d

Reserves discovered without second-in-command (4)

18d

Nice old man guards European plant (5,3)

20d

People swear it’s a hot novel (4)

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21d

Worker's about to take control of state eatery (7)

22d

Barristers? They conceal bits (6)

24d

Turn over more expensive object (5)

26d

It's hard to grasp some of this language (5)

27d

One lives around bay primarily (4)