Daily Mail Cryptic #16844

2022-05-25

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Across

1a

Examine underground container in lab (4,4)

5a

Clans prepared to return to capture member (6)

9a

Inhabitant owns, say, less than nothing (8)

10a

Looking back, there's nothing to add that's material (6)

12a

Justify each service (4)

13a

Mass killer held back at Barking (5,5)

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15a

Persuasive novelist urged changes (6,7)

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19a

Condiments displaying contrasting particles (4,3,6)

23a

Endless mix-up in Spain, Asia and part of England (4,6)

25a

Filmed drunkard casing hotel (4)

28a

Crackling sound coming from radio, not mobile (6)

29a

Combined with 28, 'The King and I' could be creative (8)

30a

Jaunty gunners upset Sikh (6)

31a

Two seconds hotly contested without difficulty (8)

Down

1d

Edward's outside pub, canned (6)

2d

Sweeten last of asparagus that's lifted (5)

3d

Some set a task for so long (2,2)

4d

Five tucked into unexpectedly viable oyster, say (7)

6d

Eighteen holes, all of them this shape (5)

7d

Harass rebel in trouble, suppressing fever (9)

8d

Parasol has blown away in windy dunes (8)

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11d

Maybe highlander's small shelter for livestock (4)

14d

Wrack possibly found in communal gardens (4)

15d

Rep's pitch with drinks to follow outside (5,4)

16d

Epitaph needs a bit of rescripting (3)

17d

New primate’s hair-raising location? (4)

18d

Judge idiots, short type (8)

20d

What mole does for cheap housing? (4)

21d

Saw European animals on farm (7)

22d

It's awkward getting credit in swanky suburbs (6)

24d

A teacher's wrong (5)

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26d

Devise small opening (5)

27d

Polish stripped elevated grain store (4)