Daily Mail Cryptic #16430

2020-10-22

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Across

1a

Extremist found in the sea, blue (11)

9a

Lecturer going off round Germany for accommodation (7)

10a

Make porridge with this old starter at breakfast, say (7)

11a

Ring back shortly to get resin (3)

12a

Quirky gangster managed to lose a grand (7)

13a

Music newspaper and magazine (7)

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14a

What's left after burning tree (3)

15a

Summarise MP having taken day off (5)

17a

Well-known school game (5)

18a

First half of ribbon's colour scheme (5)

20a

Singer earns first of regular money (5)

22a

German article backing communist (3)

24a

Perhaps scrape enough runs after start of recovery (7)

25a

A cinema needs refurbishing, lacking colour (7)

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26a

Seat of poor quality (3)

27a

Red coat designed in the style of 1920s (3,4)

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28a

Some tackling posh car's maintenance (7)

29a

Bring round excited users at Channel Islands gallery (11)

Down

1d

He returned nervously to conceal nobleman illicitly (5,3,7)

2d

Less plump painter needs this (7)

3d

Invader of old that could be obtuse (5)

4d

A happy comic entertaining old RC brought up scripture (9)

5d

A number, for example, occupying Bury (7)

6d

Source of oil that refreshes, serene and improving (7,8)

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7d

A sample briefly destroyed some of vessel's contents (6)

8d

Tired old PM's turned up at end of day (6)

16d

Junior sailors annoy nob in stormy Biscay (5,4)

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18d

Doctor's beginning test, injecting son on the back (6)

19d

He interrupts dances and repairs shoes (7)

21d

Endurance's mainmast shattered, except the top (7)

23d

Some in France bring in shy attractive birds (6)

25d

A group of dramatists and violin-makers (5)