Daily Mail Cryptic #16551

2021-04-09

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Across

1a

Called out girl’s name (7)

5a

Six tons filling island's hole (6)

9a

Gifted lecturer put away dinner at first (7)

10a

Beast's back, reptile originally, consisting of plates (7)

11a

Cut top off grass? Just a little bit of it (3)

12a

Prudish American votes surprisingly for camp article (6,5)

13a

Choose to back some great celebrity (5)

14a

A violent mob's hiding burial place for weapons (4,5)

16a

Parade around swine in a valley (9)

17a

Proprietor won trips to meet Her Majesty (5)

19a

Manger's lice ruined dairy product (6,5)

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22a

Beat up and rob dope (3)

23a

Nice old friend imports equipment for folding sheets (7)

24a

Pass a solitary large officer (7)

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26a

Disturbance on entering Shetland island (6)

27a

Customer endures mobile (3,4)

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Down

1d

Resolve to consider dropping temperature (7)

2d

Overt tone in inn scuppered new policy of neutrality (15)

3d

Bird of prey discarding last young animal (3)

4d

Bones a sleuth found in middle of Africa (5)

5d

Bosses keep calm about European carbohydrate (9)

6d

Improvises accompaniment using five loudspeaker units (5)

7d

Order workers under canvas to reveal contents of tablets (3,12)

8d

Cheese for sale, primarily for lawyers (6)

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12d

Ring to collect sort of square part of flower (5)

14d

A fussy Christian snubbing independent revolutionary (9)

15d

Book space for shrub (5)

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16d

Space for flower (6)

18d

Soldier's uniform (7)

20d

Abandon furlough (5)

21d

Person introducing acts seems clever occasionally (5)

25d

Cover swimming pool that's not finished (3)