Daily Mail Cryptic #16480

2020-12-31

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Across

1a

Clean stick securing small picnic item (6,5)

9a

Quoin dislodged in walls of jail, revealing plant (7)

10a

Sort of animal, reptilian originally, consisting of plates (7)

11a

Essential material contained in 'Mein Kampf' (3)

12a

Anglicans still tormented one who bows (7)

13a

Top officer spoils Prince Harry (7)

14a

The main prison once in London after 13 (3)

15a

Detective's puzzle (5)

17a

Pan and what may be in it (5)

18a

Accountant controls credit and capital in Africa (5)

20a

What bread-winner brings home that goes with it! (5)

22a

Tremor in cheek primarily? (3)

24a

It used to be blown, except after dismissal (7)

25a

Glaswegian’s first 15 on which to make scones (7)

26a

Lyrical poem 'On leaving the cinema' (3)

27a

Superb conductor of energy in a storm that's out of control (7)

28a

Couples dancing very near (5,2)

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29a

Aristocrat’s wife scuppers his romances (11)

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Down

1d

I can live with caramel, stirred in dessert (7,3,5)

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2d

Palace employee wasting time becomes tour guide (7)

3d

Somewhere to rest in Paris in the dark (5)

4d

Sort of musk oil in fine clubs and traditional bars (4,5)

5d

Damp in odd places clogging drier's fan (7)

6d

He occupies new address in Kent, showing warmth (4,11)

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7d

What pilot in trouble does, caught among European planes (6)

8d

Ornamental band made of rare metal (6)

16d

Yobbo that vandalised an early chopper (4,5)

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18d

Take on problem in rough sea (6)

19d

Arab tribe relocated settler? (7)

21d

Nasty old male breaks racket (7)

23d

Sinister aristocrat gets promoted in city without it (6)

25d

Reptile, say, turned up initially crawling on floor (5)