Daily Mail Cryptic #16419

2020-10-07

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Across

1a

The spirit of Arabs in their cups (8)

5a

What top detective did, having gone off? (6)

9a

A fan tours Spain with a cosmetic (4,4)

10a

Sci-fi author returns travel permit doctor sent in (6)

12a

Remove lid from waste pipe and jug (4)

13a

Collected farm animals, given support (10)

15a

Busy river parasites present, about one hundred (6,7)

19a

Prince Albert or Tom? (6,7)

23a

Able to walk, engineer may tour lab (10)

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25a

Penalty for leaders of awfully serious bullying offence? (4)

28a

Complete one part of play about property owners (6)

29a

Don on TV, say, has a way to fill green ground (8)

30a

New motorway involved in test as usual (6)

31a

Bank perhaps surrounds a very aromatic plant (8)

Down

1d

Floored area of Hampton Court appears in poster (6)

2d

Member of rock group not brought up in Home Counties (5)

3d

Church body's bible in Tyneside? (4)

4d

Turn up quote about Henry the dissenter (7)

6d

Old storyteller's revolutionary main work (5)

7d

Fellow house member allowed to be engaged in crime? (9)

8d

A device for measuring partitions (8)

11d

Parrot that follows delta (4)

14d

Feel pain at regular intervals displaying vigour (4)

15d

Brew best perry for church elder (9)

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16d

Moviegoer's sense of self-importance (3)

17d

Grub primarily found on old damson (4)

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18d

Maths problem, complex question, one for son (8)

20d

Lovable Danish king abandons heart of France (4)

21d

Northern Ireland artist keeps vehicle in ideal state (7)

22d

Dread hard men twice seizing Republican (6)

24d

Fabric deftly crafted at the centre (5)

26d

Church body beset by controversy, no doubt (5)

27d

Being out of work, I had left without newspaper (4)