Daily Mail Cryptic #16716

2021-11-26

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Across

1a

Rotate arm? Not quite all of it (7)

5a

European skipper returns - and French missile (6)

9a

Track what's wrong in wages (7)

10a

Run-down dated B&B that's written off (3,4)

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11a

Note unit in Peru (3)

12a

Fight totally bare? That's out of order (6,5)

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13a

Heartily praise old tax cut (5)

14a

Silly mix-up of IV (four) with 11 (9)

16a

Favourite yacht’s wrecked? This won't pay for it (5,4)

17a

Modify plug fitting (5)

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19a

Stop dance music then tune in elsewhere (11)

22a

Expected king to avoid his son? (3)

23a

Issue rabble-rousing speech left by leader (7)

24a

Repair cart with the toothed device (7)

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26a

Shin up and over small church (6)

27a

Arrangement of eastern books repeated on middle of shelf (7)

Down

1d

Quick response that may be piercing (7)

2d

Key data required by dressmaker (5,10)

3d

Cut grass as a rule (3)

4d

Severe pain in alien country (5)

5d

English doctor with English students is hard to improve (9)

6d

Command sequence (5)

7d

Henry wanted oven overhauled from time to time (5,3,3,4)

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8d

Needle writer once (6)

12d

Mild and calm, not cold, immersed in Times (5)

14d

Demolished apartment at No 10 Edward added (9)

15d

Pontificate in Old English about traitor (5)

16d

Like batter with pressure put on (6)

18d

Operations room which houses energy engineers (7)

20d

Type of green duck, as it happens (5)

21d

A way of transmitting messages in bottle (5)

25d

Fool visitor at table (3)