Daily Mail Cryptic #16815

2022-04-14

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Across

1a

Lacking affection, like ice (cryptically) (4,7)

9a

Outdated computer that produces young nuts? (7)

10a

Tread on odd bits of tyre more than enough (7)

11a

I leave, pursuing earl (3)

12a

Retailer all but demolished workshop (7)

13a

Warning for navy protecting old Golf Hotel (7)

14a

Possibly this reduced success (3)

15a

Greek character thus makes notes in bars (5)

17a

Celebrity catches international part of flight (5)

18a

Worker perhaps covers very large slope (5)

20a

Have another go at test paper during holiday (5)

22a

Tavern, one with two names (3)

24a

Yellowish ingredient causes affront to some extent (7)

25a

Tax man's mistaken about Castletown's first moggie (4,3)

26a

German loves excessive sentimentality (3)

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27a

Following company, greet strangely solemn column (7)

28a

Playwright's house built by Victoria (7)

29a

Chic pigpen is within limits of loch and headland (11)

Down

1d

Gather writer's fine weapons and combined smallholdings (10,5)

2d

Element 51? Yes and no (7)

3d

Extremely active, somewhat shy person (5)

4d

Camera feature in car (Ford model) (9)

5d

Riot controller dashes around Georgia (4,3)

6d

Tactful police arrest radical embassy staff (10,5)

7d

Prominent story from hack covering page (6)

8d

Note cheese ingredient's sent up (6)

16d

Sprawling green site's plain in Africa (9)

18d

Halve black creepy-crawly with no name (6)

19d

It's mostly set within US city line (7)

21d

Small gap in plateau that can be defended (7)

23d

Yak aren’t straying over middle of mountains (6)

25d

Second old church is idle (5)