Daily Mail Cryptic #16731

2021-12-17

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Across

1a

Labour admits work's gaining fertile ground (7)

5a

Money impresses American relative (6)

9a

Inauspicious commercial lines (7)

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10a

Flammable oil ruined path in new hotel area (7)

11a

Special Irish teacher (3)

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12a

Plane's wheels are dangling out of control (7,4)

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13a

Tasty ingredient in healthy meal (5)

14a

Head office minute argued about wartime force (4,5)

16a

Like burning match, being impetuous (3,6)

17a

Alter complicated warning (5)

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19a

First means to change what some unions change (6,5)

22a

I abandoned country and fled (3)

23a

Good skills needed to maintain fine vehicles (2,5)

24a

Begin song outdoors ... (4,3)

26a

... except if it's dark heading off (6)

27a

Silenced horse with us in outhouse (7)

Down

1d

Passage broadcast without mike (7)

2d

Very skint, crept off with nothing? (7,8)

3d

Propeller producing hot air now and then (3)

4d

Large individual, one in Berlin, getting more sleep (3,2)

5d

Established northern business visits school (9)

6d

Turn up regularly, say, to take clothes off line? (5)

7d

Team in baths here swam together (2,3,4,6)

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8d

Stopped a bishop probing plot (6)

12d

Tell story about, say, city in Belgium (5)

14d

Pleasure-seekers lecturer involved in thefts (9)

15d

Greek idiot's a whistle-blower (5)

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16d

Respect Home Office picture I removed (6)

18d

Like some US dons, turned off touring Spain (7)

20d

Spooky European lake (5)

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21d

Ties up people in NW Africa (5)

25d

Brussels protects male bird (3)