Daily Mail Cryptic #16876

2022-07-08

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Across

1a

One checks drift regularly in two sorts of gold (7)

5a

Remove some of the caffeine that's sent back (6)

9a

Old chap in car ignoring monarch's Russian royal (7)

10a

Engage popular victor who's in love, having split up (7)

11a

Step over, backing off (3)

12a

Relish sailors with booze (6,5)

13a

Fast writer (5)

14a

Appalling senior manager faces mob, snubbing bishop (9)

16a

Check square for big game (4,5)

17a

Harmony when roughly 50 abandon disaster (5)

19a

Fellow in Indian mutiny mostly rebelled nonstop (2,9)

22a

Delve in garden principally (3)

23a

Communicant at altar restricts choral work (7)

24a

Castle in Loire, not completely warm there, stocks drink (7)

26a

Suit club in Edinburgh (6)

27a

Fifty pesetas more than enough for what compositors do (7)

Down

1d

Fittingly, a very large rugby forward intervenes (7)

2d

Medicine costs spoiled this French course of study (8,7)

3d

Very small bottomless container (3)

4d

This writer's blocking rights for water carrier (5)

5d

Female, one implicated in nasty blaze at the ground (9)

6d

Numbers game played in court (5)

7d

Problem with viewing London club rises after renovation (6,9)

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8d

Withdraw broadcast again on radio (6)

12d

Carry money - some worship it (5)

14d

Public schoolboys host southern Baltic residents (9)

15d

Field left covered by lots of sheets (5)

16d

Canter about in dazed state (6)

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18d

Dairy product from hog trained in tent (7)

20d

Blonde conceals liberal talent (5)

21d

Understood diplomacy impresses island (5)

25d

Peak in national park (3)