Daily Mail Cryptic #16740

2021-12-30

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Across

1a

Ask for less crude hanger to be fashioned (11)

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9a

Note upward progress at an early stage (7)

10a

Deer and sheep supply coarse material (7)

11a

Municipality exports whiskey, a large amount (3)

12a

Writer's devouring varied meals and sweet wine (7)

13a

House in local ground producing booze (7)

14a

Reportedly dismiss special area of conservation (3)

15a

Reject large dirty lodge (5)

17a

Number three's out of order (5)

18a

Star’s been mistreated by director (5)

20a

Film second half in Uruguay capital (5)

22a

Occasional twitch? (3)

24a

Papers CID ransacked on NI peninsula (2,5)

25a

Fancy that guy entering race drunk! (7)

26a

Party welcomes posh couple (3)

27a

Bridge supporter hosts individual trailblazer (7)

28a

University head dismissing first nuclear fuel (7)

29a

If tipsy, Glen's stupidly telling sob stories maybe (4,7)

Down

1d

Uncles of cousins get flummoxed but not embarrassed (15)

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2d

Lined up, like sculpted stones (7)

3d

Irritable swimmer keeps dry (5)

4d

Ferret caught, as are some soles (9)

5d

Remove for more treatment here after he falls off bike (7)

6d

Shocking, surprisingly heart-breaking (5,10)

7d

Pakistani muscleman's pent-up hostility (6)

8d

Better to avoid good walker (6)

16d

What happens in autumn after eliminating top bug (9)

18d

Mawkish and sarcastic about one parish priest (6)

19d

Weightlifter uses it to veto call (7)

21d

Old foreign pal keeps apparatus for paper-folding (7)

23d

Mollusc, extremely muddy and sticky (6)

25d

Deceive Tory leader about 28 matter (5)