Daily Mail Cryptic #16780

2022-02-24

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Across

1a

Weird game with animal involving old lust for power (11)

9a

Martyr accepts returning to capture piggish mammal (7)

10a

American wears this nearly new kit, possibly in church (7)

11a

Tree has to be chopped up (3)

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12a

It excites university during a solar explosion (7)

13a

Declared bible was wrong (7)

14a

Story claimed odd bits should be excluded (3)

15a

Detected how to extract metal from ore (5)

17a

Compensate salesperson and youth primarily (5)

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18a

Computer company imports each type of girder (1,4)

20a

Site of event's missing English goddess (5)

22a

Lettuce that's firm and small (3)

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24a

Branch of mechanics and statistics first to be dropped (7)

25a

Student left paid job (7)

26a

Entertaining couple's party includes uniform (3)

27a

Tramp's towel perhaps covering feet (7)

28a

Material made from diluted spirits and stuff (7)

29a

It’s unclear if pension roughly covers 100 at college (11)

Down

1d

Small-scale production of power from crushed magnetic iron ore (15)

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2d

Good girls put drink in these (7)

3d

True alloy needs to have parts swapped (5)

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4d

Staff hotel at function in New York borough (9)

5d

Sort of energy almost impresses London university (7)

6d

Focussed on man's fixed phone contract covering Rhode Island (15)

7d

Lecturer bends over in lounge (6)

8d

Blasted delay bringing in doctor initially is fatal (6)

16d

What takes place in autumn after eliminating first bug (9)

18d

Home team's confidential (6)

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19d

It's on me after massage and it's damp (7)

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21d

Isolate marine mammal on holiday (4,3)

23d

Irish MP arranged to forego one crustacean (6)

25d

Reason to register cut diamonds (5)