Daily Mail Cryptic #16540

2021-03-25

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Across

1a

Compassionate mystic worried about old newsreel company (11)

9a

Remain around with the French food (7)

10a

Money in the bank that's essential for tightrope walker (7)

11a

Cut short test back (3)

12a

Guide fits in, for instance, to meet needs (7)

13a

Nice there - I arrive shattered (7)

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14a

Regret odd bits of route (3)

15a

Finished an example of 9 (5)

17a

Uninspired diva managed to secure second of operas (5)

18a

Endorse book to a smaller extent (5)

20a

Sound replacement for fragment of unacceptable episode? (5)

22a

Go off right on time initially (3)

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24a

Child goes round path without taking a breather (7)

25a

Income to do with location of event (7)

26a

Article appearing in 1 Across (3)

27a

Try new hue to cover current paint (7)

28a

Terminal at hospital protected by cipher (7)

29a

Basic principles of cryptic clue for lures? (6,5)

Down

1d

Vatican basilica food upset city on Baltic (5,10)

2d

As Spooner might put it, QC cleaner’s a weakling (7)

3d

Evaluate Anglo-Saxon, for example (5)

4d

Spend season inactively in Ireland once, without one note (9)

5d

Middle East city exam allowed to be set up (3,4)

6d

Open on same court roughly at the same time (15)

7d

It detects cut, so I hear (6)

8d

Daughter called up order (6)

16d

Officer runs off grabbing table in mess (9)

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18d

Kind German visits West African state (6)

19d

Dust blower is brought up with small volume in hopper (7)

21d

Vital op could become critical (7)

23d

The hollow rotten tree may do this (6)

25d

It’s to come up again in core curriculum (5)