Daily Mail Cryptic #16672

2021-09-27

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Across

1a

Fellow's in terrible pain and trouble, making nothing (12)

8a

Book substitute (7)

9a

Send off daughter to the east of Yorkshire resort (3,4)

11a

Step on board stylish small interplanetary craft (10)

12a

Cook's starter leaves burn (4)

14a

Break in concert possibly a fifth for musicians? (8)

16a

Soldier trapped in overturned wagon? It’s dire (6)

17a

Throw back rotten fish (3)

19a

Church occupying tiny ground shows refinement (6)

21a

Last song arranged for USSR's last policy (8)

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24a

Advance large object (4)

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25a

Conservative oddly curious about city centre roundabout (10)

27a

Unusual items from overseas, each containing toxic fluid (7)

28a

Book entertainer, disregarding radical material (7)

29a

If six occur in novel they are old ways of finishing off (12)

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Down

1d

Bold type more expensive at the outset (7)

2d

Do for each favourite judge (10)

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3d

Finished on top, flying perhaps (8)

4d

Burst in and interrupt, dropping books (English) (6)

5d

A team misses special assistant (4)

6d

Acquiring knowledge without resistance or inclination (7)

7d

Engineer in lab pursues deep colour (8,4)

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10d

Fine tongue lifted food shop (12)

13d

Experts reduced to eating one sort of meat (10)

15d

Insulate jailbird (3)

18d

Ban fight or flight recorder (5,3)

20d

Outline clubs playing away in various places (7)

22d

Players sit uncomfortably during raucous boos (7)

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23d

Singer Edith consumed litres following rice dish (6)

26d

It galvanises jazz in concerts to some extent (4)