Daily Mail Cryptic #16296

2020-04-17

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Across

1a

What primarily keeps one going in bumpy slope? (3,4)

5a

Wife dances around ring and screams (6)

9a

American invested in old scrap metal for chicken feed (7)

10a

Terms at the Oval exceed what's allowed (7)

11a

Sister acquires paper title (3)

12a

Trio's played at a number of events and barbecues (11)

13a

He’s round in pub, falling over - this plainly hasn’t worked (5)

14a

A newsroom annoyed boat crew (9)

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16a

Boy's in US city with other family members (4,2,3)

17a

Bull ring victor loses head (5)

19a

Specific, unique, complex singing part (11)

22a

Put on promotion with daughter (3)

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23a

Very cold bendy bus froze after starter goes (7)

24a

I got shaken following very short dizzy spell (7)

26a

Count American money first, short of time (6)

27a

Top ministers about to dispense with film (7)

Down

1d

Finance Poles drilling track (7)

2d

Being identical, their angle can be altered (15)

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3d

Lines regularly seen in doodles (3)

4d

Story turning up about college's brilliant success (5)

5d

Would prison guard broadcast what's used in flooring? (9)

6d

A group of microbes exuding fat (5)

7d

Cromwellian father, say, keeps post set up by heretic (15)

8d

College boy played at the same pitch (6)

12d

Law teacher's rare books kept in top-class case (5)

14d

Not heeding large current entering plain (9)

15d

Eddy's a feature of 24 (5)

16d

Put paid to game (6)

18d

Old soldier's firm involved in dubious trade (7)

20d

Some calamitous results upset customers (5)

21d

Town's council intends varying its charges initially (5)

25d

Polish food beginning to go off (3)