Daily Mail Cryptic #16864

2022-06-22

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Across

1a

Criminal perhaps steals one gem (8)

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5a

Cleaners put back old weapon (3,3)

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9a

Apparent place to which Peron’s wife retired (8)

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10a

Gourmet initially scoffed a top-class dessert (6)

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12a

Suitable time of day for this clue? (4)

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13a

Occasionally arrive with dogs outside pits (10)

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15a

Rick's annoying person (4,2,3,4)

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19a

Mass wedding Ruth and he arranged (13)

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23a

Quietly creep into complex to gain insight (10)

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25a

Long piece of biscuit china (4)

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28a

Single old Yankee hosts modern American (3,3)

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29a

Gathering country's contribution (8)

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30a

Vocalises every so often in Tyrol valleys, forgetting line (6)

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31a

In revised lyric, Ned's smashed old record (8)

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Down

1d

Lying face up, revealing bend in backbone (6)

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2d

Paved area taken in outside, principally (5)

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3d

Can't stand heat waves (4)

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4d

Artist on the fiddle reduced Italian food (7)

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6d

Renovated to some degree, like Humpty Dumpty (5)

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7d

I'd carried in gift for chief (9)

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8d

Unfinished dessert also known as Greek main course? (8)

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11d

Spot drunkard swallowing litre (4)

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14d

Rant about storyteller (4)

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15d

Foreign correspondent's male swan? (3,6)

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16d

New wife receives old present (3)

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17d

Some acknowledged border (4)

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18d

Piece of music, strangely sharp and oddly uneven (8)

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20d

Now and then doubt variable tax (4)

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21d

Firm invested in new money, showing prudence (7)

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22d

Polish result of punch? (6)

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24d

Bunch of parliamentarians picked up message (5)

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26d

Tired out, having been taken to court (5)

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27d

Some imaginative Persian priests (4)

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