Daily Mail Cryptic #16469

2020-12-16

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Across

1a

Around India, Clive is misconstrued as Polish? (8)

5a

Start to collect work, including rare complete texts (6)

9a

Bar girl carries clubs in the Open (8)

10a

Mother drinks a gin, avoiding one big bottle (6)

12a

Endure final (4)

13a

Irish revolutionary appears in cruelly accurate cartoon (10)

15a

Liberals work with comic who wants to get on in class? (6,7)

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19a

Frown after old boyfriend organised party for salon (6,7)

23a

One following wretched miser in dire straits (2,8)

25a

Ignoring the odds, middleman makes plan (4)

28a

Writing style that's inclined to show emphasis (6)

29a

Outrage old citizen during a test (8)

30a

Sewer that has a hole at the end (6)

31a

Dorothy briefly disturbed bull as usual (8)

Down

1d

Soft drink more expensive inside dome (6)

2d

Sixth best short percussion instrument (5)

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3d

Money in Iran raised for refuge (4)

4d

Some insult a native Ottoman ruler's wife (7)

6d

Old meat upset a US city (5)

7d

It identifies user putting pressure on popular anaesthetic (3,6)

8d

Balance reflects US TV awards bash (8)

11d

Metal extracted from quartz in Colombia (4)

14d

Northerner's second shelter for livestock (4)

15d

Same agent altered performer's alias (5,4)

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16d

Green field fills whole area (3)

17d

I prepare large object of worship (4)

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18d

Old boy playing violin in stupor (8)

20d

It covers fruit somewhere in the Isle of Man (4)

21d

Have fun entering one in register (7)

22d

Big cat guards a rare organ for making sounds (6)

24d

Around hospital such birdsong would cause excitement (5)

26d

Dehydrated, stopped operating across river (5)

27d

Superior potty, quiet (4)