Daily Mail Cryptic #16505

2021-02-04

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Across

1a

In which to smuggle Scotch to Belfast or Manchester primarily? (5,6)

9a

Bloke extremely luckily imports energy at low cost (7)

10a

Top group's earphones (7)

11a

Dish one in gym (3)

12a

Very old colonist welcomes northern French company (7)

13a

Start to rally, manage a sleep, get ill again (7)

14a

Cut large work (3)

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15a

Give a title to top-class place in Gulf (5)

17a

Engineers manage to repeat broadcast (5)

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18a

Small growth in Monopoly playing (5)

20a

Spy a chap (5)

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22a

Just beat seed (3)

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24a

German submarine protects new armed vessel (7)

25a

Continuing working with medal I brought in (7)

26a

Popular name for watering hole (3)

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27a

Female police officer's personnel (7)

28a

Advocate a job with the French (7)

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29a

A curate initially observed ignoring bishop went faster (11)

Down

1d

Chaperones fly in needing work somewhere in South Pacific (6,9)

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2d

Ideal PR designed for what deaf people do (3,4)

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3d

Alien goes over to defraud state (5)

4d

Cultivate white rose differently (9)

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5d

Advance publicity for programme that's pulled (7)

6d

Stole is suitable when boss comes round (15)

7d

Write carelessly, using small stroke (6)

8d

Ploughed western, not eastern, spread (6)

16d

Handsome fellow entering two units albeit in need of repair (9)

18d

In which to worship a deity in outskirts of Patna? (6)

19d

Copra is surprisingly arousing little interest (7)

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21d

A tub got repositioned - using this? (7)

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23d

Footballer good round goalmouth? Not this unfortunate guy (3,3)

25d

Broadcasting 'How we all survive'? (2,3)