Nelson Mail

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Stop mice from becoming prevalent in a district (7)

5. About time: ask for it to go wrong (7)

9. Come to the top again to make the road like new (9)

10. Change from 3 to send the money (5)

11. Make it float tie valet has put out (8)

12. Sort of car that puts the wrong route right (6)

14. Fashionabl­e urban residence the OU owns perhaps (4,5)

16. Some said Nicholas had returned from the subcontine­nt (5)

17. A lesser sort of key (5)

19. Revolt might have been: roll one out (9)

21. A part of one Arne recording that brings in the money (6)

22. Comes to see how one converts it into cash (8)

26. It’s not fit to paint like this (5)

27. Not as imperial as a youth may be (9)

28. Spanish noble made the garden face east (7)

29. Encourage one near the roundabout (7)

Down

1. The sort of loner who will sign on (5)

2. Deny West avoids it anyhow (7)

3. To earn one term for a change (5)

4. Drag a scout out and he’ll go after smugglers (10)

5. Bearing one has when among fellows (4)

6. It’s about tailoring, and will sort a liar out (9)

7. Around the East Madrid may be highly thought of (7)

8. Be host or go in front of an audience (9)

13. Might be bad: help’s needed with exterior coating (10)

14. Meddling with game, print is made of it (9)

15. Having got the crop in, he’d been about to starve anyway (9)

18. Blissful state Ivan ran around in (7)

20. Look closely into spin, etc, like this (7)

23. A girl who changed daily (5)

24. Black-eyed flower girl (5)

25. French cleric didn’t quite make it to Fountains (4)

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