Daily Mail Cryptic #16523

2021-03-02

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Across

6a

Will and May are two examples of these (9,5)

9a

Calm during races in China (3,3)

10a

Officer managed to defend posh hairstyle (8)

11a

Aristocratic English law graduate's shabby clothes (4,4)

13a

Tyrant imprisons last of radicals in warehouse (6)

15a

Pointless ball game involving sailor (6)

17a

New university breaks school contract before match (3,3)

19a

Not entirely common groups of species (6)

20a

Play sitar with effort and creative skill (8)

22a

Underwear, goods and paintings for one with a big head (8)

24a

Engineers surrender and go back (6)

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26a

What hungry army trainees do before and during meals? (7,7)

Down

1d

Do fat geese pair off to produce this delicacy? (4,2,4,4)

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2d

A big shot at Lord's heads up alliance (4)

3d

Bum mostly drinks litres under the table (6)

4d

Engine part works indirectly without it (8)

5d

Sort of spring and what appears in it (4)

7d

Attractive woman wears this for conquest (6)

8d

Changes forbid march welcoming island's colourful denizen (4,2,8)

12d

Legends about one French river (5)

14d

Origin of headache? Mistakes union introduced (5)

16d

See algae confused this fish-eater (3,5)

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18d

Manoeuvre leaders of the cast to accept first part of play (6)

21d

Discover vessel entering place the wrong way round (4,2)

23d

Good boy's happy (4)

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25d

Anglicans entertain a society, for instance (4)