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Crossword roundup: pantomime from highbrow to low

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Can you have a HELICOPTER without a PILOT? And how long has PANTOMIME been a dirty word?

As if in response to last weeks party-political obituary in a Times puzzle ...

10ac Not entirely dead, UKIP shows a pulse (5)

[some of the letters of dead UKIP]

16d Nervously cheer pilot in flying machine (10)

[anagram of cheer pilot]

13d Cheer pilot manoeuvringaircraft (10)

[anagram of cheer pilot]

22d Lowbrow entertainmentgod, turn over! (5)

[name of a god + abbreviation for turn over]

The ignorant, who for the Most parte are capable of nothing but dumbe shewes and noises

10d Mum, tipsy, fell missing last of steps (5-6)

[word for tipsy + word for fell without the last letter of steps]

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