Daily Mail Cryptic #16454

2020-11-25

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Across

1a

Start trade, replacing Republican with neutral (8)

5a

Couple, one that managed to get over a cold (6)

9a

Disinfectant could make Noel rich (8)

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10a

A posh vat contains first of Medoc in season (6)

12a

Finished term at Lord's (4)

13a

Landed badly on a runway finally when Shrovetide ends (7,3)

15a

Disrupt trendy place to go (13)

19a

Contentious concoction of mature vintage (13)

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23a

Priest’s residence right to garage vehicle for valet (10)

25a

Nasal tone limits singer (4)

28a

In hospital, register catchphrase (6)

29a

University student rioter somehow not divulged (8)

30a

Bizarre tales about southern collection of yarns (6)

31a

Group spread over large ring at rear of stage for first speech (8)

Down

1d

Copper and cook designed flier (6)

2d

Middle East regularly altered struggle (5)

3d

Bring in new auditor at the top (4)

4d

Control racket, one interrupting function (7)

6d

Part of jumbo's head and chest (5)

7d

An awful lot like a cakewalk? (9)

8d

Forager initially has one eye cast over front of bed (8)

11d

Spots expert around noon (4)

14d

Fraud about to be suppressed by sergeant major (4)

15d

Simple popular group of species probed by Open University (9)

16d

Tax holder of liquid (3)

17d

Pupil's surrounded by this plant (4)

18d

Primate roams everywhere in New York opera house (8)

20d

Body of church is simple, lacking centrepiece (4)

21d

Revoke a radical circular (7)

22d

Track series of lectures (6)

24d

Avoid English channel on way north (5)

26d

Inventing tales in flat (5)

27d

Pull up vegetable that gives sailors stability (4)