Daily Mail Cryptic #16256

2020-02-21

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Across

1a

Good ground covers fuel (7)

5a

Standard engines with no starter need fixing (6)

9a

SA swimmer managed to break a joint on way back (7)

10a

Blue Berets are keeping Washington in the dark (7)

11a

Some risk injury, strapping this on (3)

12a

SW city in action involving German beachwear (7,4)

13a

Rhythm and metre adopted by eccentric poet (5)

14a

Poor-quality rider that should be amended (5,4)

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16a

Model married woman, one of five (9)

17a

I hand out just the ticket (5)

19a

Coppers make minor adjustment (5,6)

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22a

Small silver flag (3)

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23a

His hut’s designed to house unknown dog (4,3)

24a

Firm keeps working this evening (7)

26a

Cultivate corn in land that's open (6)

27a

A little condensation expected, I hear, to fall (7)

Down

1d

Kind group, as were newspapers once (7)

2d

Anti-monarchist airman let loose in China (15)

3d

Private sort of 25 (3)

4d

Smallest European enters final (5)

5d

Issue covers sport scholarship (9)

6d

Informed about Latin colloquial expressions (5)

7d

Doctor urged natural gas sweetener (10,5)

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8d

Confine boiler (6)

12d

Dealer doesn't finish without money (5)

14d

Resilient evangelist briefly eats cold hard cheese (5,4)

15d

Hammer in a hundred rivets (5)

16d

Think about one’s ill-treatment (6)

18d

Easy to carry more expensive flash (5,2)

20d

Start to lose German game (5)

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21d

Famous school repelled duke (5)

25d

Triumphed over right away (3)