Daily Mail Cryptic #16648

2021-08-24

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Across

6a

Is everything conventional about this service provider? (8,6)

9a

Tin contains broken plant item (6)

10a

Smart aleck, English one with a screw loose (8)

11a

Kelvin wastes a winter in Woollies (8)

13a

Two lots of soldiers arrest a tense speaker (6)

15a

Make a jacket using some tree ferns (6)

17a

Very large parent hoards one metal (6)

19a

He got worried about temperature in slum perhaps (6)

20a

Old theatre tackles plot that is amenable (8)

22a

Henry and Edward somehow grasp old entry in dictionary (8)

24a

Festival with a couple of unknowns and lots of stars (6)

26a

Behaviour of bull in its favourite haunt? (8,6)

Down

1d

Direction of bygone Hitchcock classic? (5,9)

2d

Turned up demo tapes with very little in them (4)

3d

Quiet snow-leopard might do this (6)

4d

They cut deceptive movement at Murrayfield (8)

5d

An enthusiast hauled up swimmer (4)

7d

Where nurses work and make progress (6)

8d

In reduced form, this gas is central to narcotic (6,8)

12d

Message, tiny, appears in Times (5)

14d

Excuse one wearing vestment second in line (5)

16d

Efficient English comedian keeps working (8)

18d

Fuss about pressure on grand champion at Crufts (3,3)

21d

Surround young woman briefly in goal (6)

23d

Call to collect Mike's mum (4)

25d

Young man receiving university's praise (4)