Daily Mail Cryptic #16921

2022-09-09

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Across

1a

Probe question about what's left (7)

5a

Helping attractive woman with work (6)

9a

With little flexibility, Sally occasionally controls row (7)

10a

Fail to meet comedian (5,2)

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11a

A British puffin for one (3)

12a

Moneylender has to rely on crib American introduced (4,7)

13a

Independent party curbs one member's language (5)

14a

After strike, diminutive miner's punch drunk (4,5)

16a

Author's request in speech, according to the rules? (2,3,4)

17a

Virile Sydney suburb (5)

19a

Undesirable consequences of squad with baggage (4,7)

22a

Decorate rocks (3)

23a

See you later working here with unit in business (7)

24a

Cultivated left-winger accepts monetary penalty (7)

26a

Three ordered to carry special religious book (6)

27a

Parts of bureaucracy changing positions became narrower (7)

Down

1d

Graduate is about to consume mostly dull cereal (7)

2d

Prepare squid stew with ink etc in show of acuity (5,10)

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3d

Impish type stowed away in channel ferry (3)

4d

Attempt to deceive eccentric Tory knight (3,2)

5d

Engineer makes bird leave ship (9)

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6d

Master and student bring in money (5)

7d

Retiree playing central role in soaps briefly (3,3,9)

8d

Fit different drink in case of sherry (6)

12d

Frozen dessert almost failed (5)

14d

Production area store fell (4,5)

15d

Rotting material in 20 smells awful around university (5)

16d

Black beetle with no name split in two (6)

18d

Bore conceded defeat (7)

20d

Dicky heart could be terminal (5)

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21d

Incentive reported to be worth its weight in 22? (5)

25d

Turkey, not large, affected male (3)