Daily Mail Cryptic #16916

2022-09-02

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Across

1a

Faint old coins found in gym (4,3)

5a

Popular girl briefly eats with family members (2,4)

9a

Calm old man provided one in cricket club (7)

10a

Excavate stuff, including a drawing (7)

11a

Trendy northern watering hole (3)

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12a

Lobby vocally against unfinished dictionary (11)

13a

Excuse boxer boxing illegally at the start (5)

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14a

Study Greek letter left in toilet by heartless guy (9)

16a

A brief part of play is retrieved on Atlantic island (9)

17a

Crooked canine limits dentist primarily at end of surgery (5)

19a

I made timely changes straight away (11)

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22a

Regularly doing work in garden, say (3)

23a

Register each line in 16 Across (7)

24a

Normal location restricted social climber (7)

26a

Paper boss tried somehow to suppress circular letter (6)

27a

Arrange characters in septet unruly Yankee sent in (7)

Down

1d

Seasoning mash with a blackcurrant drink that's revolting (7)

2d

Clue to ring number two? (6,2,7)

3d

Old fellows constituting cricket side (3)

4d

Diplomacy involves India, understood? (5)

5d

Formal admission of fashionable French duke into ground (9)

6d

A shopping centre in LA upset wool supplier (5)

7d

Passion - it's a feature of mammals and birds (4,11)

8d

Oily sergeant major supported by his employer (6)

12d

A sixth article to do with birds (5)

14d

Discreet monarch's vessel commissioned by government (9)

15d

Old religious scholar extremely lazy in a strange way (5)

16d

A pair treated last of itchy hives here (6)

18d

Turn over husband in tent to find dairy product (7)

20d

Daughter split pile of snow (5)

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21d

Sussex patient welcomes person living abroad (5)

25d

Grave words not entirely suitable for consumption (3)