Daily Mail Cryptic #16804

2022-03-30

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Across

1a

What etchers do in small bed at end of June (8)

5a

Person depositing cash is paying guest (6)

9a

Steer game Blues won here (8)

10a

Dine outdoors and walk in the park (6)

12a

Design part of seaside area (4)

13a

Order soup to follow champagne perhaps? Great work! (6,4)

15a

Reconstruct porthole frame in nacre (6,2,5)

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19a

Where hands move without a break (5,3,5)

23a

Where marine traffic's operating when no holds are barred (4,6)

25a

Hairstyle seen in seafront (4)

28a

Most of 25 help chicken (6)

29a

Tension created by American writers in southeast (8)

30a

Warning upper-class type stealing small coin (3,3)

31a

Cultivate tiny tree? It takes for ever (8)

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Down

1d

Incongruous Irish icon shifted (6)

2d

Bring up island's marten (5)

3d

Surprise attack's speedy, lacking power (4)

4d

In some cases, say, a good rabbit turns up (7)

6d

After work, this writer’s ingesting classy painkiller (5)

7d

Band organise king's access to boat (9)

8d

Halite staggers an officer (4,4)

11d

Release gun dog out of bounds (4)

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14d

Stable boss (4)

15d

Tom - a super version of this lethal device? (9)

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16d

Whiskey and old port (3)

17d

Ducks occupy place - this place? (4)

18d

Cocky Arsenal’s front two fulminate about own goal (8)

20d

Head office mostly dismiss prank (4)

21d

Old queen carried in pepper pot maybe for game with Alice (7)

22d

Solitary cryptic clue for Lily? (6)

24d

Ask if fisherman owns this perhaps (5)

26d

Truffles, for example, give pleasure to US soldier (5)

27d

Encourage all but last in team (4)