Daily Mail Cryptic #16831

2022-05-06

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Across

1a

One doesn’t want company left in secure compound (7)

5a

Close Scottish bank over in New York (6)

9a

Pianoforte managed nine grand in old German money (7)

10a

Dishonourable man with mother hiding current metal (7)

11a

A court's part in play (3)

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12a

Swelter awfully over ore, putting in kilos? I do that (11)

13a

Weather lady who rules lines (5)

14a

Choose a player to give this lift to child? (9)

16a

Teams drinking lager recalled skiing manoeuvres (4,5)

17a

500 in a party make sense (3,2)

19a

Frank organised fight in marquee (11)

22a

Painting's social on regular occasions (3)

23a

Pressure's on to restart venture (7)

24a

One samples food holding old kitchen device (7)

26a

I take flight crossing British meteorologist's line (6)

27a

Stand for conductor or conversely play banjo maybe (7)

Down

1d

Substitute ribbed material with delicate fabric (7)

2d

Artists' trunks? They usually hold clothes (6,2,7)

3d

Vessel, foreign one, containing rupees (3)

4d

Very good score in Gleneagles (5)

5d

Perhaps chains pet with fasteners (9)

6d

Sound car reaches finish in Monte Carlo (5)

7d

Building new smart rock band to tour Rhode Island (6,3,6)

8d

US rail company's fate revolves around timetable principally (6)

12d

They make it easier to see small muscles (5)

14d

Mercenary ship in River Plate foundered, 50 lost (9)

15d

A snare's set up some distance away (5)

16d

Exercises suit different heads of primary schools (3,3)

18d

Bunyan’s hero, devout student, determined (7)

20d

Drivers quibble about banger perhaps (5)

21d

Compound in Leicestershire (5)

25d

Like special beast of burden (3)

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