Daily Mail Cryptic #16437

2020-11-02

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Across

1a

Attempt briefly to finish my job designing new fashions (12)

8a

Paper folding? Old Baltic city writer’s upset (7)

9a

Absurd target set before a boating event (7)

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11a

White layer typically causing rig to wobble (5,5)

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12a

Ring around lines (4)

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14a

Doctor wears more painful old hat (8)

16a

Woman’s opponent recalled dealing with this (6)

17a

Displease leaderless Church of Scotland (3)

19a

Generate energy in case (6)

21a

Spooky mood and atmosphere in pub beginning to go? (8)

24a

Cypriot always entertains Athenian character (4)

25a

The fool had spoiled what athletes eat? (6,4)

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27a

Granny swathes injured knee in cotton (7)

28a

Wordy first half of book’s boring poetry (7)

29a

Member gathers 100 at union meeting by arrangement (12)

Down

1d

Nuclear fuel? President mostly stores it on island (7)

2d

Overvalue old gemstone good monarch imported (10)

3d

Waste a quid on one Rhode Island cocktail (8)

4d

Wear a new variable hearing aid (6)

5d

One obtained revolutionary old garment (4)

6d

Some say late shift pay is based on this salt (7)

7d

Celts originally positioned iconic stone circle perhaps (5,7)

10d

Immediately unsaddle foal that's misbehaving (3,2,1,6)

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13d

Minor device connected to computer (10)

15d

Extract of foreign mineral deposit (3)

18d

Pull up old vegetable and very nearly collapse (4,4)

20d

Inactive former Tory leader in court (7)

22d

European reticent about record in environmental science (7)

23d

Leguminous plant regularly remains in place (6)

26d

First group of unemployed put up list of courses (4)