Daily Mail Cryptic #16799

2022-03-23

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Across

1a

Even Pole angrily stamps on it sometimes (8)

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5a

Solve a maths problem involving tubes? (6)

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9a

Contest viciously fought - hard going with sore backs (3,2,3)

10a

Opera libretto's opening not unusual (6)

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12a

Very small name erased from beer can in Victoria? (4)

13a

Chairman’s munched old cherry (10)

15a

Male's cut fabric range, changing item in wardrobe (7,6)

19a

Handy weapon's joint rusted badly (7,6)

23a

Rotten matter in decayed tree that’s four feet long (10)

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25a

Excavator hides sparkling wine (4)

28a

Pole's blanket seized by police captain (3,3)

29a

Frailty of liberal held back by divine being (8)

30a

Chicken crosses a road? Step on it (6)

31a

Garden trainer's pearlies needing treatment (8)

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Down

1d

Maryland perhaps bequeathed property (6)

2d

Disciplined consumer, say, cutting carrier (5)

3d

Boost liberal newspapers (4)

4d

Old ruler in Egypt played a harp? I'm surprised (7)

6d

Long-suffering individual in bed's laid up ... (5)

7d

... yearning to welcome doctor with one amazing thing (9)

8d

Card game on which toddler makes progress (3,5)

11d

Successfully get through gap in mountains (4)

14d

Cut moor (4)

15d

Matters involving the Foreign Legion (9)

16d

Objective's close (3)

17d

Car valuation omitting odd features (4)

18d

Playful sketch represented this (8)

20d

Jug's more modern, lacking lid (4)

21d

Futile advice to reduce shortage? (7)

22d

Legal expert's wife's in bed (6)

24d

Aunt originally donated succulent plant (5)

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26d

Excuse one wearing clerical vestment on island (5)

27d

Capital in Rhode Island and Georgia (4)

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