Daily Mail Cryptic #16484

2021-01-06

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Across

1a

Fail to notice distressed lover visiting old well (8)

5a

Acquire round container holding former reserves (6)

9a

Women’s quarters in Algiers rebuilt by Ottoman leader (8)

10a

Completely consumes American energy drink (4,2)

12a

Worry about paper stores (4)

13a

Hand-written document in football team's vault, it's said (10)

15a

They cut fruits popular monarch's husband brought in (7,6)

19a

Stop buckteeth rotting? Bite the dust! (4,3,6)

23a

Wimpy doctor twice sent in no wages separately (5,5)

25a

Bunch of revolting yobs arrested, having broken this? (4)

28a

Mustang, maybe, one of five arriving together in heart of Greece (6)

29a

Wild beast traps people in cellar (8)

30a

Quit busy side street (6)

31a

Supporter's friend straddling nervous steed (8)

Down

1d

Become inflexible and cross if you’re consuming it (6)

2d

Spooky European lake (5)

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3d

Lift some regulations for event in Winter Olympics (4)

4d

Old chum in Paris imports gear for folding paper (7)

6d

Simple writer takes in Anglo-Saxon (5)

7d

One who attacks a special holy person touring US city (9)

8d

Favouring one's own cultivated pimentos (8)

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11d

Top half of a small house in Cork (4)

14d

Military group, French one with PCs etc (4)

15d

They lift spirits in Middle East carried by trucks (4,2,3)

16d

End of pen not including first of boars (3)

17d

Fish quiver after head gets chopped off (4)

18d

Aggressive youth Rick asked about stylish hotel (8)

20d

Cut round leader in the morning paper (4)

21d

University doctor approaching spleen causes offence (7)

22d

Corporal's lesson involving first of tanks (6)

24d

Tugs bring in nothing for a long time (5)

26d

Got a whiff of what metal extractors do (5)

27d

Tenor cuts charge for garden party (4)