“Massively Useful” (Crossword #26)
25 May 2021
Skirwingle

If you’re inclined to give up, you should … combine three answers from the grid into a phrase to put in the box below.


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  •  1  Prompt instruction to John Higgins (3)

  •  3  State renovated train inside is hygienic (8)

  •  8  City – Chesterfield, perhaps – I can be found in (5)

  •  9  Instrument of French husband with business qualification (7)

  • 10 Where to drink during Prohibition (3)

  • 11 I like male and female feet (5)

  • 12 Fancifully bullish detectives hid a chemical (7)

  • 14 Good man leaves pushchair in America for a dearer vehicle (6)

  • 15 Writer to plagiarise in the home counties (6)

  • 19 Shonky automobiles abandon run-down slum in old Greek region (7)

  • 21 Exposed college administrator came back hugging principal of Kings (5)

  • 22 Estate agent provides meal (3)

  • 23 Rugby play I might be baffled about (5,2)

  • 25 Step back from abyss – I’m grateful I recoiled at first (5)

  • 26 ’Ave flu if mixing vile vapours (8)

  • 27 Infusion pour les anglais  (3)

  • 28 [see preamble]

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  •  1  Get rid of bank clerk (7)

  •  2  At home under nurse, sick, embraced by celebrity (2,7)

  •  3  This art’s not moving, though it’s able to move (7)

  •  4  Hunter Biden finally gets Steiger’s self-introduction (6)

  •  5  He makes an attempt to embrace the queen (5)

  •  6  Strange drink (3)

  •  7  Pass partner peripheral connector to discard (4)

  • 13 Get along with someone a bit odd that wants you to think they’re interesting online (9)

  • 16 Tupac’s reportedly needed for a card game (7)

  • 17 Sanction what you get according to ’obson’s choice? (7)

  • 18 What helps guide delivery vehicle back after end of working week (3-3)

  • 19 City break’s beginning at hotel (4)

  • 20 What’s sold in homewares dept? Two strange pieces of electrical lighting (5)

  • 24 Official concerned with football primarily (3)

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