Daily Mail Cryptic #16583

2021-05-25

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Across

6a

Minor second airline diverted over Belgium (14)

9a

Beef, with or without gazpacho starter (6)

10a

Source of funds at Surrey ground (8)

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11a

Notable error by university lecturer in paperback (8)

13a

Current workers maintain top-class awareness (6)

15a

List of words excluding Arab magazine (6)

17a

Grey, liberal PM, holds ace (6)

19a

Son kept clutching one sporting trophy (6)

20a

Journalist dealing with strong drink (8)

22a

Emphatically trendy suit (2,6)

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24a

Score double this to finish pub game? (6)

26a

Oddly left group of friends in meeting, showing composure (4,10)

Down

1d

Gap in boxer's defence offering small possibility of success? (8,6)

2d

Examine small tin (4)

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3d

Posh girl drinking whiskey's poorly (6)

4d

Home Counties were installing a good drainage system (8)

5d

Service small state (4)

7d

Lock up trainee worker (6)

8d

Where food’s entering last, ie to be processed (5,9)

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12d

Senior Tory retains large digital protection? (5)

14d

Regularly sued the German milk supplier (5)

16d

Team cross about alternative entrance (4,4)

18d

Cold river, one in Oxford, creates emergency (6)

21d

Volunteers once given access to superior fertiliser (6)

23d

Draft favourable review (4)

25d

Heroic sleuth seen in City (4)