Daily Mail Cryptic #16856

2022-06-10

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Across

1a

Company initially provides funds (7)

5a

Entrance expert on ship going round Cuba (6)

9a

Bloke consumes last of dinner before cheese (7)

10a

Version of bible (Old Testament) as decorative trinket (7)

11a

Put away grub each time (3)

12a

Fast setter bewildered the papers (5,6)

13a

Like the sea it rises, occasionally deadly (5)

14a

Crude parcel containing bread roll and fruit (4,5)

16a

Miners on beer tormented boss (6,3)

17a

Gannets usually and not owls primarily leave this (5)

19a

Criticise idol defending stock alarm mechanism (5,6)

22a

Sack ten in A&E (3)

23a

One who prefers the best new titles I introduced (7)

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24a

Like ham maybe, enjoying continued success? (2,1,4)

26a

Appropriate east wing perhaps (6)

27a

Hot spicy dish avoided by Charlie's more costly and faster! (5,2)

Down

1d

Most wary actors adopt guises now and then (7)

2d

Uninformed host managed to maintain current time (6,9)

3d

Wool supplier rises and falls (3)

4d

Outside broadcast excluded from nasty part of play (5)

5d

Judge a rare piece on merit (9)

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6d

Copper fragment's length once (5)

7d

Analyst played with rope and flex, that’s obvious (4,11)

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8d

Artwork's universal in country (6)

12d

Wrong fellow supported by a London university (5)

14d

Some say reptile swallowed savoury cake (9)

15d

Gas spoiled organ (5)

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16d

Writer turns up with 22, a relation (6)

18d

Partially hide where napkin is often placed (7)

20d

Part of South America's cold, by the sound of it (5)

21d

Honk at horse or canine maybe (5)

25d

Broadcast song (3)