Daily Mail Cryptic #16719

2021-12-01

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Across

1a

Dominate old military unit (8)

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5a

Duck out of going to fell oriental tree (6)

9a

Rotten tree with bone left inside that's hideous (8)

10a

Quarters affected? Put up tents (6)

12a

Hand-me-down ulster occasionally put on daughter (4)

13a

Perhaps cheapest accommodation upset child stars (5,5)

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15a

Music group, band with two pints, interrupting 'Let it be' (6,7)

19a

Found home to accommodate top royal, one in row (8,5)

23a

Enhanced scale and icons showing revived style (10)

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25a

Staunch support for plant (4)

28a

Absurd story about European aphrodisiac? (6)

29a

Rowdy hotel, one circled by meandering lagoon (8)

30a

Affair limits Yankee pilot's job (6)

31a

A cry for help brings in top firefighter, now banned (8)

Down

1d

Maybe orange refreshes rustic (6)

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2d

Join setter to bring in a little work (5)

3d

Solo, uplifting melody at conclusion of opera (4)

4d

Swimmer left Greek character in Russian river (7)

6d

Chief turns up in charge of architect's order (5)

7d

Promise to briefly protect a new part of course (9)

8d

Facing work on river location (8)

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11d

Irish question implicates a different country (4)

14d

Relative of 4 seen in two of the Balearics (4)

15d

Joking apart, India invested in euros converted with cunning (9)

16d

One's given outstanding devotion first and foremost (3)

17d

Border on a reservation (4)

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18d

Workers host northern bash for rugby player (5,3)

20d

Trouble-free Spain, say, after revolution (4)

21d

Awful ambassador in America grasps nothing (7)

22d

Compensation changes (6)

24d

Left individual, one in Berlin, reward for late night? (3,2)

26d

Sozzled this evening on leaving (5)

27d

Now and then Bill used award at Cambridge (4)