Daily Mail Cryptic #16490

2021-01-14

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Across

1a

Garage worker admits one way is purely physical (11)

9a

After 1945, letters were actually rare at first (4,3)

10a

One who delivers the Daily Mail (no stamp unfortunately) (7)

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11a

Broadcast song (3)

12a

In a perfect world I would really avoid resistance (7)

13a

Old, plump and pompous (7)

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14a

Left ducks somewhere to go (3)

15a

Prettify border in pages (5)

17a

Informant in New York sent back English cutter (5)

18a

Difficult question for model (5)

20a

Employed in Ulster on odd occasions (2,3)

22a

The old women's tree (3)

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24a

Surveying angle, a variable one at estuary, ignoring hole (7)

25a

Old bishop in church court put right (7)

26a

Where to seek cure in newspaper (3)

27a

Deal lacks radical touch (7)

28a

Old compiler’s last to be given first prize (7)

29a

Application requiring a joint effort? (5,6)

Down

1d

Acts and ceremonies strangely enthral female graduate (6,2,7)

2d

Firm decline to cover up wife's bloomer (7)

3d

Display artillery replacing third of army (5)

4d

Musical piece writer's put off following concert (9)

5d

After first in Turnberry American hit clump of grass (7)

6d

Local meeting place is posh, it would seem (9,6)

7d

Tough university hospital probes tablet (6)

8d

Tense diver stands here (2,4)

16d

Dish is cooked with 23s (5,4)

18d

Fish I set outside (6)

19d

Red stalks husband in game, gaining point (7)

21d

Land mass destabilises sea air around tip of Peru (7)

23d

Get dry - and whiter possibly (6)

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25d

Nurse's CV lacking effort at the beginning (5)