Daily Mail Cryptic #16754

2022-01-19

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Across

1a

Check underground laboratory item (4,4)

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5a

Wilde's awards ceremony (6)

9a

Unproductive land, sort of square, blocking shore (3,5)

10a

Late snack would be excellent, having spent a penny (6)

12a

Pole managed to make great strides (4)

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13a

A single male in burial mound's the source of blood (4,6)

15a

Fuss after pay cut by German city briefly out of touch (13)

19a

Horse in China trained to clear a Sierra (8,5)

23a

Rational repeated denial by Poles seen misbehaving (2,8)

25a

Jumper a trifle askew? Not all of it (4)

28a

So far, gallery is receiving overdraft (2,4)

29a

Starry team, one in Madrid (8)

30a

Hang loose, left in peril mostly (6)

31a

Recently made drink with nitrogen in it (5,3)

Down

1d

Coach lets us brawl (6)

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2d

Group in dispute stupidly backs organisation (3,2)

3d

The first of these request work (4)

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4d

Brush round Edward's place of retirement (7)

6d

Bath University invested in NASA complex (5)

7d

A nuisance besets audacious concern (9)

8d

Sailors finish securing lid (5,3)

11d

List of courses given up by unemployed beginners (4)

14d

Perhaps a Glaswegian way to acquire company (4)

15d

Ancient beast's droppings brought in by one lecturer (9)

16d

Crew's chief neglecting one (3)

17d

I'm a leader in mosque (4)

18d

Gave out name and date haphazardly (8)

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20d

Reside abroad, going over plan (4)

21d

Bank employee's sack (7)

22d

What hippos do that's amazing around a large lake (6)

24d

Netherlands besieged at a SA province once (5)

26d

Right to grab one extended rest (3,2)

27d

First of victories over a German vessel (4)

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