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Cryptic crossword #11

 

Across

1 Aerial insect gives woman a turn (7)

5 Problem with Schr枚dinger鈥檚 guinea pig loose in Switzerland (5)

8 Poster I connect with European farewell (5)

9 Distracted animal tracks earliest Facebook post (3,4)

10 Order an X-ray. It鈥檚 faulty? Strange (13)

11 3 downs are beginning to follow life in French capital (6)

12 One can wrap one鈥檚 head around graduate鈥檚 party trick (6)

15 Opportunities for mass movement to build on cancer study (7,6)

18 Howler monkey with a long exclamation of pain up front (3,4)

19 A soup莽on of digitalis lethargises a pancreatic region (5)

20 Chuck, say, investment in acoustic mimicry (5)

21 Read, and if you highlight a section, smarten up (7)

Down

1 Retail giant chasing Google鈥檚 tail loses on 鈥渨ow!鈥� (5)

2 List the wrong flower of Scotland (7)

3 It can process, learn, know. True? (6,7)

4 Guarantee mass drops very loudly in the atmosphere (6)

5 Distribution of electrons touring foci 鈥� an unorthodox arrangement (13)

6 Revolutionary Atari headband (5)

7 Golden clay fired and compressed by hydrogen covering (7)

11 Mindless drone returning with great speed over you and me (7)

13 Chief inspector gets sick following graduate (they spread disease) (7)

14 Once you replace Euclid鈥檚 Elements II and III, either can be dropped with a wink! (6)

16 Sources of u-shaped lines near an ellipse parallel to the radii? (5)

17 Spit food at cutting remark (5)

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