Daily Mail Cryptic #16461

2020-12-04

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Across

1a

Announce Delaware is linked to county in Ireland (7)

5a

Squeezing you into costume requires force (6)

9a

Honour benevolent comic, ignoring vet (7)

10a

Singer, very professional, pens article (7)

11a

Runner is coming back over summit of Kilimanjaro (3)

12a

Try small fleece on girl - it's absolutely authentic (6,5)

13a

Queen’s consort ignoring bishop's warning (5)

14a

Popular team dismissed completely (6,3)

16a

Vehicles (one overturned) book-end hot Golf GT? (6,3)

17a

A shout reverberates in passage (5)

19a

Wooden structure - tackle row with it possibly (11)

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22a

Bakery product that's coiled at the back (3)

23a

Letter from good person in English stately home (7)

24a

Clip Republican in bar (7)

26a

Make last customised EU token incomplete (3,3)

27a

A young horse impresses Yankee and English helper (7)

Down

1d

Like whalers raising pace, each releasing chain (4,3)

2d

Ridiculous kind of eccentric act of deception (10,5)

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3d

Special Branch seize minister's vestment (3)

4d

Sporting occasions short of time equally likely to happen (5)

5d

I'd upset old poet and chemist perhaps (9)

6d

Transfer plant to new container boozer set up (5)

7d

Second beauty title for controversial US torch-bearer (6,2,7)

8d

Headgear which inspires old priest (3,3)

12d

Mount horse to make progress (3,2)

14d

Harsh increase, having changed sides (9)

15d

Duke, lush, did what lushes do (5)

16d

What makes curl or wave (6)

18d

Zane Grey, losing heart, stumbled across Thailand river (7)

20d

Some paint round first bars (5)

21d

Old salesman put up a show in Covent Garden (5)

25d

Bill's partner? I'm surprised (3)