Daily Mail Cryptic #16427

2020-10-19

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Across

1a

He preps dish ordered by European - this dish? (9,3)

8a

Everlasting duchess’s elegance recalled to some degree (7)

9a

Cricket side cut new deal, it’s asserted (7)

11a

Award for gangster operating in the dark, so I hear (10)

12a

Disgusting offence in game (4)

14a

One who settles the price to capture wild lion (8)

16a

Film Briton with prince, ignoring every other character (6)

17a

Poor actor in Shakespeare play let off (3)

19a

Strange story involving English seafood (6)

21a

Ferocious beast corners people in vault (8)

24a

Northern lines' point of intersection (4)

25a

Noticed Abraham returning without British wives of Indian rulers (10)

27a

Room to treat unhealthy horse (7)

28a

Loathe storing dry nuts in watery compound (7)

29a

We reinstall a complex natural source of water (8,4)

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Down

1d

Exceptional individual appears in different places (7)

2d

Just woman passed round note (4,6)

3d

Hotels accommodate American twice in secret (4,4)

4d

'About A Boy' shows good sense (6)

5d

Will the author start to satirise fabulous little creature? (4)

6d

Clique that's stylish and mature, losing weight (2,5)

7d

List stories - they may attract some interest (4,8)

10d

Eat slices laid out in study, bought here perhaps (12)

13d

Teams confuse position of woman at Badminton? (4,6)

15d

Regularly boast about bill in New York (3)

18d

A matron managed to catch husband in the long run (8)

20d

In which motorcycle passenger is belted up separately (7)

22d

Closely watch what’s in orbit (7)

23d

Odd pair case party walls, finding old documents (6)

26d

Player and leader of orchestra occasionally booze (4)