Daily Mail Cryptic #16408

2020-09-22

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Across

6a

They enclose written speech and randomly varied comments (8,6)

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9a

Mongrel led off clot (6)

10a

Note chap getting sculpted memorial (8)

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11a

Pressure on father upset her naughty child (8)

13a

US state loses last Asian national (6)

15a

Hesitate, following change (6)

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17a

Enforce writer's stance (6)

19a

Plant seems perfect at first on drive (6)

20a

Plain cross embedded in fancy tie-clip (8)

22a

I’m in Bern changing currency (8)

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24a

Police captain holds blanket for Pole (3,3)

26a

Seasonal song book missing first character (9,5)

Down

1d

Huge fee for pics ruined writer's vivid expression maybe (6,2,6)

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2d

Enthusiastic bloke heading off (4)

3d

Round here right inside tree (6)

4d

Compose music with boring element (8)

5d

Discharge European with German (4)

7d

Accompany revised score with tenor (6)

8d

How dictionary is ordered by a Lille chap at complex (14)

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12d

Actress Bette dumps married sluggard (5)

14d

Item of clothing popular in fringes of Delhi (5)

16d

Cultivate tiny tree for a very long time (8)

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18d

Retain different images registered here (6)

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21d

Royal etchings announced (6)

23d

Start to make trouble for postal service (4)

25d

Oxygen plant erected to produce money (4)