Daily Mail Cryptic #16572

2021-05-10

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Across

1a

Brainwash? Do it in trance after being trained (12)

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8a

Toy artist left stuffed with false gold (3,4)

9a

Judge is controlling races beside HM, showing nerves (7)

11a

Board gets refresher to do with seafood (10)

12a

Some studied Italian and Polish (4)

14a

Second strip of carpet raised (6,2)

16a

Ideal place to put small Ceres bust? (6)

17a

Heard second person's an old source of longbows (3)

19a

Worker on quayside or deck possibly (6)

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21a

View gold in Central American country (8)

24a

PM's English hideaway (4)

25a

Nice changes in net income for expert (10)

27a

Bag second chalet after it's renovated (7)

28a

Outstanding work by sculptor (7)

29a

Anglicans sent in money and flowers for pachyderms (12)

Down

1d

Firmly establish one new cereal (7)

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2d

Glimpse Oz bouncer going up to stop the German bouncer (10)

3d

You’ll split up without question after county conference (8)

4d

Check over Josephine's answer (6)

5d

Unstable part of mast (4)

6d

Part of sewer altered crudely (7)

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7d

State on eve of war? Send papers out to enlist engineers (12)

10d

Gratification is fantastic, specially when love is involved (12)

13d

Squares and circles one misconstrued (10)

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15d

Go and exercise quietly (3)

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18d

Nomad's a lot more open-minded, I'd say (8)

20d

Deceitful person reportedly spotted big cat (7)

22d

Ever-youthful princess’s elegance rising to some extent (7)

23d

French police stripped for fun (6)

26d

Avoid first of headlines in newspaper (4)