Daily Mail Cryptic #16736

2021-12-24

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Across

1a

Endlessly trim then cut vegetable (7)

5a

Make concrete by working with unfinished model (6)

9a

Poles pen a variety of bible titbits (7)

10a

Keen to enter department to crack code (7)

11a

Criticise god (3)

12a

Question union on adrenalin roughly every four years (11)

13a

Accuracy comes back after ditching car plant (5)

14a

Most of pirate's underwear (4,5)

16a

Work with roofless chicken coop where everyone's welcome (4,5)

17a

Lament return of European network (5)

19a

Survey one corner - it's crooked (11)

22a

Support odd characters in bureau (3)

23a

Where back is massaged at end of surgery? (7)

24a

Ideal tense (7)

26a

Like 9, stay over with the French (6)

27a

Daughter pursues animated sailor, agog (3,4)

Down

1d

Complete display of 11 with old work (7)

2d

Genetic messenger briefly in middle of hibernation (11,4)

3d

The Netherlands win 1-0 (3)

4d

Finished a farinaceous food (5)

5d

Bottle in Shackleton's vessel (9)

6d

Elizabethan author cured meat (5)

7d

Big Brother lady trained Yankee, grossly overcharging (8,7)

8d

Large American supports pen for old writer (6)

12d

Cancel ball game - leader's disappeared (5)

14d

Cycle out everywhere with English cell (9)

15d

Hardy lad impresses good referee (5)

16d

Controversially, our NHS makes a charge (6)

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18d

Noble, strangely elated, accepts kiss (7)

20d

Steal old boy's fat cat (5)

21d

Additional amount set over to cover surgery (3,2)

25d

Charge artist pennies (3)

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