Daily Mail Cryptic #16682

2021-10-11

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Across

1a

Restore retired woman's skill briefly at end of course (12)

8a

Sailor loves changing excuse (7)

9a

Get tight in future, perhaps, at university (5,2)

11a

Film instrument hotel enclosed in glass (10)

12a

Yank's about to tour a country in Europe once (4)

14a

Sad moments in short episodic programme, not popular (8)

16a

Hot spice? Sounds cold to me (6)

17a

Tax container (3)

19a

Hold old competition within county borders (6)

21a

University finally bringing in yen (8)

24a

Pulled part of power drill from the back (4)

25a

Disney dog traps male cat with a fruit (4,6)

27a

Destructive sport at home followed by ordinary American (7)

28a

Gain time for convict in the past (7)

29a

In the morning play netball with Ivy inconclusively (12)

Down

1d

Exam marks second in Ulster surprisingly (7)

2d

Hot novelist George has to secure plant (10)

3d

Soviet leader British never hoodwinked about zero hour (8)

4d

Drunk with some boring speech (6)

5d

Tense individual's colour (4)

6d

Single-digit growth damages one in the end (7)

7d

We could tramp ground, alleviating friction with this ... (6,6)

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10d

... possibly on hilltop and bog, where we make our mark? (7,5)

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13d

Heat regulator which controls metros in different places (10)

15d

Speak for one (3)

18d

Fellow player leaves Mike with couple (4,4)

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20d

Exotic music impresses a European, not heavy metal (7)

22d

It's idiocy and madness to exclude society (7)

23d

A sample nearly contaminated blood constituent (6)

26d

Nothing's found in big wild desert (4)