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Cryptic Crossword #5

Difficulty: * * *   (explanation of difficulty)

Instructions: Fill in each white-coloured box with a single letter, corresponding to the letters in each answer. When finished, click the "Check solution" button to check your solution.

When a letter is entered into a square: Do nothing Move cursor right Move cursor down
Provide immediate feedback for wrong answers? Yes No
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Down

  1. Pig's head in fire truck is fleshier (7)
  2. Game ruined following love letter (5)
  3. Country in control, endlessly (5)
  4. A throne reassembled further (7)
  5. Large number of soldiers in area, from right to left (6)
  6. Providing illumination is within, I will enter vault (9)
  7. Pictures of French symbols (7)
  8. Around Los Angeles, a ninth unusual thing drawn in by breathing (8)
  9. Doctor loves a con: They're very hot! (9)
  10. Accountant enters tub with topless princess on holiday (8)
  11. Point to ascending holy man pursuing type of "deer guns" (7)
  12. Look after poetry in Old English (7)
  13. Settles snugly in bird's home, getting fifty points (7)
  14. Confirm some apathy, fire Valerie up (6)
  15. Stage setting notes: "Company right" (5)
  16. Receive grant (5)

Across

  1. Making money after BP oil spill (10)
  2. Benevolent sort (4)
  3. To defeat, uplift at first, then pound down (5)
  4. Rocky groans... it's musicians! (9)
  5. Good ring, I hear, for old Egyptian ruler (7)
  6. Speaking, or starting off consuming food... (7)
  7. ...either way, it restores your vitality! (7)
  8. Passes after the French women (6)
  9. Resentment in country church (6)
  10. Out-of-shape, a con got into shape (7)
  11. Amaze stunned starlet (7)
  12. Creates affection for finish with organs (7)
  13. Social science comics one rewrote (9)
  14. Desert animal arrived terminally ill (5)
  15. Average distress call gets nothing (2-2)
  16. Keyboards for engineers? Pretty wise (10)