Daily Mail Cryptic #16714

2021-11-24

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Across

1a

Coach left in distress for school holiday (4,4)

5a

Source of baffling answers in Philadelphia (6)

9a

Villa loses his head after wrong Mexican dish (8)

10a

Recommend supplier's inspiring finishes (4,2)

12a

Lady sheds weight in Arab state (4)

13a

Specialist enlists current workers for test (10)

15a

Race daughter in sport on ice that's terrifying (13)

19a

Messy writer needs this big pot plant cultivated by HM (8,5)

23a

Artist Aussie backed gets balder maybe, using this? (5,5)

25a

Sentimental message's inconclusive (4)

28a

Biblical story doesn’t start describing farmland (6)

29a

Refurbish bad one if it’s authentic (4,4)

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30a

Romeo appears in front of this range (6)

31a

Keel’s unstable, not set back in framework (8)

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Down

1d

Rickety boat in 'Hard Times' that protects boater maybe (6)

2d

Young creature's right in core of hot rock (5)

3d

Grasp small branch (4)

4d

Unruffled, dealing with large cut (7)

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6d

Some ski, unnecessarily soaring over depression (5)

7d

Stern notice about SA port (9)

8d

One MEP got angry after I put in complaint (8)

11d

Barmen unwillingly accepting list of courses (4)

14d

Pick up excessively small particles left by fire (4)

15d

Eleven in Paris aboard barge wasted a long time (6,3)

16d

Connector on gear primarily? (3)

17d

Idiot's information (4)

18d

Residents in Tomsk head off Portuguese perhaps (8)

20d

Longest flower may be blue or white (4)

21d

Deck contains strange upright place for horses (7)

22d

Humble college boss entertains this setter (6)

24d

Sovereign that's found in schoolbag (5)

26d

Often belt round this rubbish by the sound of it (5)

27d

Dog, or part of it (4)