Daily Mail Cryptic #16870

2022-06-30

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Across

1a

Fierce fight in totally bare ground (6,5)

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9a

Cover empty nests here and there (7)

10a

Cool drink picked up for person in the know? (7)

11a

Private's working wife introduced (3)

12a

Anonymous university nerd's back probing notes (7)

13a

People who serve swear it's fresh (7)

14a

A long time in operation (3)

15a

Source almost discovered on time (5)

17a

Fit soldier tucked into beer (5)

18a

Liberal old American president's preferences (5)

20a

Air at funeral grim around entrance to graveyard (5)

22a

Comedian with a grin at the start (3)

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24a

Survive traverse (3,4)

25a

Deal out first of contracts during popular move (7)

26a

The same note for Spanish man (3)

27a

What we say when leaving majority of cheese and port (7)

28a

Enamel covers this hollow in canine ultimately (7)

29a

Lass feeling poorly, needing a little squeeze? (4,7)

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Down

1d

Dodgy dealers want to sell filling drinks (5,10)

2d

Strip - or leave it? (4,3)

3d

Reveal student at school (3,2)

4d

Gunners taking a bath or shower? (9)

5d

Easy somehow to catch virus in Tel Aviv college (7)

6d

Are they expecting Elizabeth's aides? (6,2,7)

7d

Oxygen tube's bent at an angle of over 90° (6)

8d

Fish in oddly warm stormy seas (6)

16d

They're not expected to win, constrained by hounds (9)

18d

It's left in suburbs of city after vicious gale (6)

19d

A few split nearly everything (7)

21d

Respected Arab and English females dine out (7)

23d

Collect articles in Greek (6)

25d

Big country raising help with part of UK (5)