Daily Mail Cryptic #16579

2021-05-19

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Across

1a

One way to stop clothing trouble (8)

5a

Soup made from lobster and crab is quenching to some extent (6)

9a

Fellow put in green flag encased in two metals for big game (3,5)

10a

Arab busily pens street guide for his market (6)

12a

Old city maintains lake, just (4)

13a

Leading pair of adults extended advancing old age (4,6)

15a

Women's rowing crew boosting sport (13)

19a

Like good electrician's work, having reliable contacts (4,9)

23a

Idiot's back keeping cool 29 dish (4,2,4)

25a

Lay out small cask (4)

28a

Good old inspiring German kept quiet (6)

29a

Writer, for example, lives in English Street (8)

30a

Court's job is annoying (6)

31a

Mad duke called journalist about earl (8)

Down

1d

Fake entry impresses court (6)

2d

Swimmer eats soft part of flower (5)

3d

Storyteller brought up waterbird (4)

4d

Stable dam (7)

6d

One minute before last stage of insect's metamorphosis (5)

7d

I failed sadly to follow question, but passed (9)

8d

Each band's bringing in new income (8)

11d

Special painting's dirty (4)

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14d

Some quartz in conglomerate that's found in brass (4)

15d

Happily scheming to enrol learners in golf (9)

16d

Notes number (3)

17d

Female consumed her fortune (4)

18d

Drunk taking in posh part of London left gloomy (8)

20d

White or blue African flower (4)

21d

Man sees bats all together (2,5)

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22d

Team in agreement (6)

24d

Poem about cinema (5)

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26d

Slender, initially green object (5)

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27d

Island seized by Navajo from the south (4)