Daily Mail Cryptic #16752

2022-01-17

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Across

1a

Greek letter found in dictionary, one about lots of bars (7,5)

8a

Free places to go in posh Tyneside? (7)

9a

A top-class couturier brings in tons for accountant (7)

11a

Horse with lower jumps could become useful (10)

12a

Sticks around, looking complacent (4)

14a

Eeyore's confused around small awful buildings (8)

16a

Count American coins first, wasting time (6)

17a

Contest opinion endlessly (3)

19a

Huge comedian has succeeded (6)

21a

New English doctor completed cases for part of year (8)

24a

Russian leader's independent carrier (4)

25a

Obscure detective's penetrating intuition (10)

27a

Annoy soldier with bottle (7)

28a

Madrid gent covered a large bash (7)

29a

Lady with Prescott distributed flyers in the past (12)

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Down

1d

Pulverised coal oddly raises not much heat (7)

2d

A Petty Officer is accepting the sailor's best time (10)

3d

Soviet boss British never bamboozled about zero hour (8)

4d

Is that so European stops recovery? (6)

5d

Release a foreign fool (4)

6d

Smith managed our group's strip of land (7)

7d

Horrifying night crew with gun running amok (3,9)

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10d

I start working in area for enrolment (12)

13d

Often natural fuel's found in grass by empty lorry (10)

15d

Nonstop function's wrong (3)

18d

The oil dispersed, I see, in the early Stone Age (8)

20d

Red mark on skin tolerated (7)

22d

Report on the French armbands (7)

23d

The number one journalist joined (6)

26d

Tree shelters amateur exhibition (4)