Daily Mail Cryptic #16582

2021-05-24

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Across

1a

Busily connive in urban area, installing last of fast telecoms (12)

8a

Get rid of waste direct from island (7)

9a

Five caribou run away, scattering camp (7)

11a

Seductive forty-niner? (4,6)

12a

Veto new farm building (4)

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14a

He'd acquired a snake that limits progress (8)

16a

Hero briefly accepts offer for ‘Basic Instinct’ (6)

17a

Old king's irritated expression (3)

19a

Pound with this soft steel cast (6)

21a

Short comic with large collar - a problem of scale? (8)

24a

Wader tucked into Garibaldi biscuit (4)

25a

Dreamt Santa is deviously given food cans (10)

27a

Guard ordered to drink a litre bit by bit (7)

28a

Notice about beer is brought in (7)

29a

Traditional union with cooked lamb and diamonds in ring (5,7)

Down

1d

Company chief left each section of The Listener (7)

2d

After training, we enrolled layabout (4,2,4)

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3d

Soldiers upset bloke coming out (8)

4d

Bill rented small computer (6)

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5d

Test quartet in outskirts of Vienna (4)

6d

It swamps guy with us, soaring upwards (7)

7d

Flier's stunt, aiming to retain power following hard border (5,7)

10d

They're thrown into battle fed on corn and bananas (6,6)

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13d

Indian shut out what's heard in northern part of his country (10)

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15d

Druid regularly not working (3)

18d

Like old clothing, treated badly over time (8)

20d

John's into wild fruits, having turned over greens (7)

22d

Dearer drink restricts normal growth (7)

23d

Uncultivated female with permit (6)

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26d

Project involving son's fair (4)