Daily Mail Cryptic #16678

2021-10-05

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Across

6a

My band listened, transported, their thoughts elsewhere (6,8)

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9a

A northern tree captivates radical nerd (6)

10a

Painter fairly regularly dealing with cash (8)

11a

In new lyric, Ned broke old record (8)

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13a

Creative person's eccentric traits (6)

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15a

Henry VIII's stature (6)

17a

Address in Rome’s surprisingly close to Vatican (6)

19a

Goodness in a rich man’s leftovers? (6)

20a

Decorate bread as a treat for child (3,5)

22a

Visionary papers beginning to expose top celebs (8)

24a

Short hero receives offer for ‘Basic Instinct’ (6)

26a

Sadly, she is very inept and easily offended (14)

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Down

1d

Study any Durham suspect when alms are distributed (6,8)

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2d

Nicholas was one to survive a revolution at first (4)

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3d

Small uncovered wound (6)

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4d

Overwhelm bar meeting about union (8)

5d

Nuisance engaged in envelope stuffing (4)

7d

More needs to be adjusted in my storage facility (6)

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8d

They occupy house that’s found in woodland maybe (5,3,6)

12d

Expression I'd picked up in the Isle of Man (5)

14d

Pace start of Tennyson's new poem (5)

16d

Most hurried special matches controlled by bowler maybe (8)

18d

Order points and another engine part (6)

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21d

Cereal covers a large upside down cake (6)

23d

Hectare approximately covers this (4)

25d

See red and black painting (4)