Daily Mail Cryptic #16501

2021-01-29

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Across

1a

Hold down work with papers (7)

5a

Stern detective inspector leaves neighbourhood (6)

9a

Bill’s latest failing involves ring (7)

10a

Drag in a mother's old bottle (7)

11a

Everyone needs this tune (3)

12a

In difficulty, like grapes in winery? (4,7)

13a

Pastoral poem idly composed next to lake (5)

14a

Vital action in pool for typist's depression? (9)

16a

Engineer turned out to be illiterate (9)

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17a

Freezing doctor goes round island (5)

19a

Proper food additive, not a product (5,6)

22a

Regularly reveal catch (3)

23a

A thousand put in offer designed to get unfair profit (4,3)

24a

University's head ignoring first element in A-bomb (7)

26a

Biochemical, unknown, seized by enemy at sea (6)

27a

City's unusual oblong article (7)

Down

1d

Old friend in Paris stores apparatus for folding paper (7)

2d

Very skint, crept off holding nothing? (7,8)

3d

Priest seen in Israel initially (3)

4d

Slander small to medium-sized enterprise, Arab (5)

5d

Having good vision, spy ad here in different places (5,4)

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6d

Regret holding exercises for money (5)

7d

College senior ought to call about European ostracism (4,11)

8d

Get a grip of this name (6)

12d

A slave of the lottery (5)

14d

Starts to knit extensive frill to hide female disorder (9)

15d

Golfer's row involves his game (according to NATO) (5)

16d

Judge union representative with anger (6)

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18d

Cover up Austen heroine's predicament (7)

20d

Award upcoming city wood supplier (5)

21d

Plug obscure book (5)

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25d

Sharp tool made of tungsten coated in aluminium (3)