Daily Mail Cryptic #16789

2022-03-09

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Across

1a

Person missing a book dispatched by Europeans (8)

5a

Small mariner hires vehicle, a Beetle (6)

9a

Leading celebs welcome one after at least one flight (8)

10a

Bridge opponents nearly stop all together (2,4)

12a

Leave cricket team in Egypt (4)

13a

Drama teacher's old mode of transport (10)

15a

Check flower's rebirth (13)

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19a

How sailor establishes position, busy reading on deck (4,9)

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23a

Foreign articles promise to cover 50 criminals (10)

25a

Tax obligation (4)

28a

Hermit avoids special sort of acid (6)

29a

Rebuilt keel’s not put back in framework (8)

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30a

One checks canopy over bed (6)

31a

Awfully thin bloke's swallowed medical preparation (8)

Down

1d

Entertained before noon, then employed (6)

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2d

South American almost concealed Japanese dish (5)

3d

First skipper, one in eastern drama (4)

4d

Irregular boulder not in its original place (7)

6d

After change of heart, comedian's making a point? (5)

7d

Liberating general is wrong (9)

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8d

Support worker getting stroke in court (8)

11d

Greta Garbo consumed this extract of 27 (4)

14d

Raise bar for storyteller (4)

15d

Study clothing and change its intended recipient? (9)

16d

A British puffin, for example (3)

17d

Keen opera singer's given up (4)

18d

Notice project colonist's giving aide-de-camp (8)

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20d

Prepare fiddle (4)

21d

Crude error involving Kelvin's waterproof cloth (7)

22d

Pen's output sounds like seal in ring perhaps (6)

24d

Bring up increase American introduced (5)

26d

Extremist caught in Seoul traffic (5)

27d

Range covering lake and sea growth (4)