Daily Mail Cryptic #16776

2022-02-18

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Across

1a

Head of pharmacy, petite, smashed tube in lab (7)

5a

Curt prince in Sikh headdress briefly turned back (6)

9a

Fresh wood's unfair treatment (3,4)

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10a

Writer's at heart of Dublin probing the sewer's cover (7)

11a

Now and then repair seed carrier (3)

12a

Italian one’s unexpectedly put under government control (11)

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13a

One carrying fat primarily is probably this (5)

14a

Nearly phone the army, cancelling a current treatment (9)

16a

Sort of squash billy-goat on head? (9)

17a

Ring back about one aromatic shrub (5)

19a

In work, left French article that's unsuitable (11)

22a

Reduced air in cask (3)

23a

P&O artist's first mythical woman (7)

24a

Strip is bored in different places (7)

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26a

English composer has written off to get perfect example (6)

27a

Erratic series about university put out again (7)

Down

1d

Normal location of event restricted social climber (7)

2d

Legal authority to forewarn poet possibly at close of play (5,2,8)

3d

Driver's often pulled out here and there in odd places (3)

4d

Story turned up about one Israeli port (5)

5d

Long-distance traveller turns to a comic touring area (9)

6d

Educated girl consumes a yogurt dish (5)

7d

About 50 appear in magazines maybe as image enhancers (6,9)

8d

Only US soldiers leaving Lyme Regis in trouble (6)

12d

Explosive constituent's a bit disconcerting in retrospect (5)

14d

It identifies organ supplier in London or Cardiff (5,4)

15d

Very healthy banks split in two (5)

16d

Radar spots capturing first of many wartime balloons (6)

18d

Assemble a hundred on even ground (7)

20d

Still river keeps cool (5)

21d

Less than two foreign articles (5)

25d

Almost leave out runner in snow (3)