DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Will must go through this in bare top, disoriented (7) 5 E.g. the 1960s, mainly dissolute (6) 9 One slip marred character of Socrates (7) 10 Shade airborne troops circling lake (7) 11 Father loses last knight’s address (3) 12 Group of secondrate celebs that seals product? (7,4) 13 Chief of police called to crash (5) 14 Milled rice or e.g. sugar originally among these? (9) 16 Liberal once clutched one nervous girl for ride (9) 17 For example, lights of Falmouth, excluding estuary (5) 19 Fang, roughly square, also tough initially and hard (6,5) 22 Mostly restrain first part of 19, say (3) 23 Book withdrawn by writer’s arousing intense feeling (7) 24 Bishop and three Europeans catch virus in colony (7) 26 Lover avoids M1 — it makes her tense (6) 27 Female warrant officer is allowed to tour Netherlands (7)

DOWN

1 Exercise: people do it in lift on ground floor (5-2) 2 Comment on job location with a view of the opposition (11,4) 3 Everyone is governed by martial law (3) 4 Nun drunk in centre of Rheims, displaying 7 there (5) 5 Bathe husband with minimal clothing, sort of ligature (9) 6 Nurse’s profession lacking energy (5) 7 I’d assist harassed group in unhappy state (15) 8 Men smash obelisk I removed (6) 12 Roll first of barrels, twisting a leg (5) 14 George’s ordered to hold races for ambitious types (2-7) 15 Long time needed to deal with upset horse (5) 16 Twice Kent opener is beaten, playing on this (6) 18 Crime is nearly solved after cycle’s seized (7) 20 Immature inhabitant ignores time (5) 21 Steer front of boat in tight bend (5) 25 Wood cherished by barrel-makers (3)

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