Daily Mail Cryptic #16905

2022-08-18

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Across

1a

Clear unique complex piece for singer (11)

9a

Number One: Drink more fluid! (7)

10a

Small space in list can be justified (7)

11a

Ventilate aviary at regular intervals (3)

12a

China and Japan, for instance, are filling up rapidly (3,4)

13a

Confiscate this writer's money ... (7)

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14a

... money that is left back (3)

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15a

Stand for artist when cutting fish (5)

17a

Cut corners to avoid going round miles (5)

18a

Posh doctor interrupting artist's dance (5)

20a

Northerners once caught entering mines (5)

22a

Couple in undergrowth retreating (3)

24a

Member of clergy scrubbing one big church (7)

25a

Longed to exchange letters during 31st December (7)

26a

In garden, scrape front off footwear (3)

27a

Milk supplier I'm beginning to envy about mid-afternoon? (7)

28a

Give job to petty officer opening a beer (7)

29a

Citrine perhaps from U.S. National Park (11)

Down

1d

Contrary to house rules, Unionist party menial ran off (15)

2d

Promote eastern tax shelter limits (7)

3d

Dangerous fish transporter about to disintegrate (1,4)

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4d

Acrimonious threesome in civil disturbance (9)

5d

Nibbles pecan nuts including a shell initially (7)

6d

Like approaching delivery using little technical help? (6,9)

7d

Valuable American fuel should be distributed (6)

8d

Make fun of nurse at party (4,2)

16d

Comic crime-fighter transforming our sphere? (9)

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18d

Distant meteor exploded (6)

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19d

Everyone eats thin bananas in colony (7)

21d

Drive away to collect current cleaner (7)

23d

Strange thing groom did to pony’s tail (6)

25d

Guy stands up to welcome European poet (5)