Daily Mail Cryptic #16481

2021-01-01

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Across

1a

In which flyer steers and feathers fly (7)

5a

Short miner's dog (6)

9a

A superior part conceals European golden ring (7)

10a

What's hiding in sumac? A querulous tree-dweller (7)

11a

Nearly dispense with footwear on slope (3)

12a

Tsar at home demoting earl's line (11)

13a

Depressed individual embraces posh Arab (5)

14a

It could be the main hookah perhaps (5,4)

16a

Strangely, a French-American friend stores uranium (9)

17a

Groom very softly circles flank (5)

19a

For aviaries being rebuilt a tactful approach is needed (6,5)

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22a

Lug a small amount of cereal (3)

23a

The sort of pursuit in which to beat troops (7)

24a

He overcame the Minotaur and the south-eastern states (7)

26a

Woman's precious stones (6)

27a

Judge heartless routine stoppage in horse show (7)

Down

1d

Charles is importing special framework (7)

2d

School studies Evita's revised life story (10,5)

3d

Post Office enlist radical expert (3)

4d

Article on engineers in that place (5)

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5d

Observe gripping performance coming together neatly (9)

6d

It's clear carbon in liquid's beginning to disappear (5)

7d

Popular Queen’s visit is possibly what journalist needs (15)

8d

Admire minister stopping short of North Dakota (6)

12d

Stop working in a uniform for so long (5)

14d

Oscar's defending evergreen indicators of climate change? (9)

15d

Pity about Europe wasting its money, a little in India (5)

16d

Outcome of lob? (6)

18d

It shades soldiers round lake (7)

20d

Whitish yellow plant that climbs fencing (5)

21d

Bury's season doesn't begin (5)

25d

German XI feel fulfilled to some extent (3)