Daily Mail Cryptic #16720

2021-12-02

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Across

1a

Group in action with Oasis surprisingly (11)

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9a

Start decorating, employing this bold colourful style? (3,4)

10a

Like worship of 15s in South Africa, it can spread (7)

11a

Court made of timber mostly (3)

12a

Judge managed to limit one chorus (7)

13a

Token Naomi wasted in Netherlands (7)

14a

Now and then snatch small bag (3)

15a

Expert's protest note (5)

17a

Labour constituency carries weight (5)

18a

Game birds show fear (5)

20a

Calls for poles to cross river on the way back (5)

22a

Very old whiskey showing promise (3)

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24a

Check one book plugging popular success (7)

25a

River has, bizarrely, two names - one's cut (7)

26a

Discharge Patrick, ignoring the odds (3)

27a

Swimmer, one hoping to win favour (7)

28a

Exploit is in vain without leader (7)

29a

Trained Latin star regularly taking interpreter's job (11)

Down

1d

Doctor irate with a chairlift? It keeps his patient going (10,5)

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2d

Flight attendant's two ways to curb dread when climbing (7)

3d

Play about 150 running round Wales (5)

4d

Fool formerly grasped a new feature of poetry (9)

5d

This eccentric American owns minute strip of land (7)

6d

'No meddling' policy on TV in nine or ten plays (15)

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7d

Sign he's taken from Roget's book (6)

8d

Old fool traps European cat (6)

16d

Former soldiers a blend of smart and mean (3,2,4)

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18d

One of five coming together at church for fruit (6)

19d

Plant liable to collapse injected with oxygen (7)

21d

I must follow new laws about greeting in Bantu tongue (7)

23d

Victor, you and I run round tavern (6)

25d

Diver uses this south Caribbean island (5)