Daily Mail Cryptic #16696

2021-10-29

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Across

1a

Rebuke top salesman first (7)

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5a

Complex snag absorbs European (2,4)

9a

Timid smart guy in Glasgow? (7)

10a

Evidently 150 get ahead of schedule (7)

11a

It's not in books university introduced (3)

12a

One searches for possible stars - latest count is wrong (6,5)

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13a

Slick couple of newspapers in the Big Apple (5)

14a

Fellow telling stories to baffle flier in SE Asia (6,3)

16a

Spoil former club with iron and lead occasionally (5,4)

17a

Arrange hoax to take in special South Africans (5)

19a

Bargains at Billingsgate for miserly types? (11)

22a

Sow peas in garden initially (3)

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23a

Acquit a suspect at sea? (7)

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24a

Freezing conditions at first interrupt La Liga sadly (7)

26a

Poles are beginning to set traps (6)

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27a

Tense priest worried expert on form? (7)

Down

1d

Motorists going to save county mammal (7)

2d

Reason for buying a single ticket when halfway there? (5,2,2,6)

3d

Drunk's heading off timber supplier (3)

4d

Decisive contest popular in SW river (5)

5d

Overworked journalist looked after the north (9)

6d

Hardy girl secures river lock (5)

7d

Miner on foot leaves this contribution to climate change? (6,9)

8d

Form of language used when picking up wrong nails? (6)

12d

Attempt to fool members of gentry once (3,2)

14d

Referee gives these thrills for nothing? (4,5)

15d

Bond star turns up, hugging former partner (5)

16d

Gregarious, intensely secular revolutionary (6)

18d

Bony Unionist wearing tatty raglan (7)

20d

Look round entrance to town for saint (5)

21d

Not working this evening? Get drunk (5)

25d

It's poisonous when quiet (3)