Daily Mail Cryptic #16500

2021-01-28

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Across

1a

Force through hot item in salon? (11)

9a

Let's assume crew block street for a bit (7)

10a

Aim of tennis player, rejecting old woolly garments (7)

11a

Regularly engage part of clutch (3)

12a

Happy British worker comforts solver who’s given up (7)

13a

Island engineers wedding (7)

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14a

Rare books decay (3)

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15a

Conclusion that hurts fund (5)

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17a

He drove a milkcart before touring part of UK (5)

18a

Exhausted writer gets in the way (5)

20a

Swift beast loves grass to be turned over (5)

22a

Eye golden book (3)

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24a

Dull public relations officer is a failed Conservative (7)

25a

Plant one in messy stable (7)

26a

First to leave closed shed (3)

27a

Womble’s big SA flower (7)

28a

After tensing at first, the rig somehow gets more secure (7)

29a

Clubs freely come clean about quiet feeling of smugness (11)

Down

1d

Leo, say, changed zoos if it got injured (4,2,3,6)

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2d

Raise European tax shelter limits (7)

3d

NY opera house accepts Old Testament anthem (5)

4d

How tutor managed to inspire good development (9)

5d

Lie spread-eagled beside small river enjoying this (7)

6d

Potentially lethal game? It depends on location of round (7,8)

7d

Line on map is round pub (6)

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8d

View adopted by oldest ancestor (6)

16d

Cool shady rocks, where nobody's boarding (3,6)

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18d

Draw off fluid in posh tanks (6)

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19d

Bouncer's positioned inside cafe (7)

21d

Former reserves in Congo deciphered figure (7)

23d

Tired king in play appears in Times (6)

25d

Ancient Greek lumber room? (5)