Daily Mail Cryptic #16404

2020-09-16

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Across

1a

Gallery ordered to include old picture with a moral (8)

5a

Give up king captured by enemy, then leave (6)

9a

Home Counties case is having a calming effect (8)

10a

Respect notice approaching Slough (6)

12a

Smallest member of family somewhat disgruntled (4)

13a

Protective garment is blue or it needs altering (6,4)

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15a

Crick's annoying person (4,2,3,4)

19a

Somehow grip nail with prong, holding device (9,4)

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23a

Fresh water-carrier covers top-class tender plants here (10)

25a

Element found in quartz in conglomerate (4)

28a

They're egg-shaped, very big, hiding gap (6)

29a

A real pit after surgery to do with wall in body cavity (8)

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30a

Explosive device crudely taped over back of door (6)

31a

Decisive blow for elimination contest (8)

Down

1d

Declare property occupied by Republican (6)

2d

Left a study loaded (5)

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3d

Label stuck up on eastern entrance (4)

4d

Pasta recipe, the fifth to be covered in garlic mayonnaise (7)

6d

Command sequence (5)

7d

European timeless portrait: 'A Northern Libertine' (9)

8d

Pass Victor stuck in gnarled oak tree (8)

11d

Mark, drunk, doesn't have to (4)

14d

A peculiarity of speech is featured in record (4)

15d

Exhausted platoon leader floored, so I hear (6,3)

16d

Sister's notes about uniform (3)

17d

Peer not quite ahead of schedule (4)

18d

Cohort mature and grow up losing weight (3,5)

20d

Confirmation of vows at altar before large icon (4)

21d

Power supplier's good, like the sea (3,4)

22d

Form southern sect seizing power (6)

24d

Lowest point of dinar after conversion (5)

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26d

Leading bars keen to import first of rioja (5)

27d

Record find? Not half! (4)