Daily Mail Cryptic #16620

2021-07-15

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Across

1a

Like Molly Brown with a lisp? Highly unlikely (11)

9a

Strict American cuts a tree by mistake (7)

10a

Chinese settler carries whip in part of Mexico (7)

11a

Idiot appears regularly in Kansas (3)

12a

Works in Labour gaining superior ground (7)

13a

The reduced close isn't as broad (7)

14a

Daniel finally rejected European bread (3)

15a

Stumble across very short leaving party (5)

17a

Socially inept person acquires right language (5)

18a

Bar measure, first of three in old photograph (5)

20a

Runs across gatherings of horses and hounds (5)

22a

Poet essentially pens 500 lines (3)

24a

Resin coating forged coin isn’t revealing much (7)

25a

Sort of clip Crufts entry maybe (7)

26a

Paddle round Arab (3)

27a

Colony in which everyone drinks thin liquid (7)

28a

Blue Berets are guarding Washington in the dark (7)

29a

Show experts gallery king installed (11)

Down

1d

Simple duties can vary with this, including surgery (15)

2d

Initial advantageous position to view without leader (7)

3d

Plan line, the best possible (5)

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4d

Crucial blow for typist's depression? (9)

5d

Taxi picked up monarch's funds (7)

6d

One interacted busily with the French for pact with them (7,8)

7d

Commercial association distributed claret (6)

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8d

Article on tree enthrals radical trainspotter (6)

16d

Mark’s monocle is smashed (9)

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18d

Note a Renault going uphill that stops squeaking (6)

19d

Sanction fraud on business (7)

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21d

Officer in sauna chewed fruit (7)

23d

Occupant of eyrie beginning to eat end of shoelace (6)

25d

Main force dash into outskirts of Beirut (5)