Missing Letters by Conto



For each clue, one apposite letter is absent from the wordplay. Clues are listed alphabetically by answer. Answers should be fitted into the numbered grid. Chambers Dictionary is recommended but does not give one commonly used entry.

A mature saying (5)
Fruit beer distributed with obscure packaging (9)
East of Switzerland, old queen makes trench (7)
Situation in court – ten playing against ten (7)
One committed to assasinate the King in state capital of Eswatini (7)
Fish used to provide these, cryptically – roe upon sea’s surface (9)
Father nude…Nude? That’s a crime! (5)
Come to be cuddling a special seal (6)
How mum passes buck to a guy for shark wrestling (2,3,4,6)
Attic smell (5)
Bill and Dorothy’s dog eaten by eagle – filleted or whole? (4-2-3)
That man sung songs (5)
One key number that is imaginary or unknown (5)
Young person (that’s posh) by the banks of Venice river (8)

City leaders in advance talks with Conto’s waste disposal facility! (8)
Starts to lay out utensils and to serve oriental fruit (7)
Mother with large boy getting the train? (7)
Meals regularly dispatched by one very loud dog (7)
Standard or dairy-free Galaxy? (2,3)
Dog and Duck football team (7)
Broken toy, buckets, bottles and locks one’s gathered (9)
Socialist’s repeatedly taken drugs, thus declines (7)
Misguidedly met up with her online, i.e. exchanged contact (9,6)
Turnover of three-hundred dairies containing teats (5)
Heated with heat (6)
‘Bungle Bear’ is an animal (5)
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