Daily Mail Cryptic #17255

2023-12-21

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Across

1a

Indifference shown by southern groups of troops (11)

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9a

Remaining group I have contracted is ill at ease (7)

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10a

Celebrated atmosphere with backing for Spanish drink (7)

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11a

Pretence in part of a play (3)

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12a

Oppose small thing used in board games (7)

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13a

A short form of retirement? (3,4)

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14a

Progressive rock band getting positive response (3)

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15a

Brief to bring back clock, say (5)

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17a

Approaches Tyneside drinking haunts lacking frontage (5)

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18a

Walk heavily and halt having taken minute (5)

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20a

Poor useless plant deadheaded in new yard (5)

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22a

Complete part of chosen dissertation (3)

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24a

Classify again number on car mistakenly read (7)

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25a

Greyish mammal sped around cricket club and pool essentially (7)

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26a

Vegetable and fruit companion ignored (3)

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27a

Old Conservative companion into mixed gin and Italian food (7)

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28a

Abandoned narrow channel marginally expanded (7)

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29a

Prison, I hear, troubled a resident in a church district (11)

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Down

1d

Recording by American possibly using poor set giving views (10,5)

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2d

Journalist lately writes about destructive event in the U.S. (7)

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3d

Part of spectacle arranged? That's evident (5)

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4d

Some title devised for a parasitic plant (9)

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5d

Older relative enthusiastic to get yellowish cloth (7)

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6d

One making a delivery for another? (9,6)

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7d

Difficult set of cards followed by unknown character (6)

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8d

Searches around area much visited places (6)

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16d

First person tucks into specimen cooked as seasonal fare (5,4)

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18d

Rex amid first of such embraces expresses doubts (6)

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19d

Reindeer, one moving in a showy way? (7)

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21d

Your chart regularly has a northern Mexican peninsula (7)

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23d

Strip study due for renovation (6)

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25d

Artist starts to draw illustrations indicating bones (5)

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