Times Cryptic #26629

2017-01-23

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Across

1a

Scrapheap prepared to receive European bureaucratic procedure (10)

6a

Eager with weapon (4)

10a

Not wanted in university, book found in study returned (7)

11a

Nastiness of Shakespeare twice shrugging off wife (3,4)

12a

Drink? Cheers! (Hiss?) (5,4)

13a

Distinctive theory probes meaning of green device (5)

14a

Cotton material, turned and shortened, is shrinking (5)

15a

Welsh chief to extend credit through local peninsula (9)

17a

Smug politician given chair speaking (9)

20a

Fish heading away from seaweed (5)

21a

Flower in dry earth finally lost (5)

23a

Not entirely chicken, working for classic tourist attraction (9)

25a

In protective gear, doctor loves to probe intestine (7)

26a

Headband as relic demolished in court (7)

27a

Make small error at end of simple knot (4)

28a

'Go for gold'our team brochure (10)

Down

1d

Suspect professor bowled a heavy ball (5)

2d

Officer that may be sleeping in the street (9)

3d

Good book suggesting vin rosé? (7,7)

4d

Fieldwork is hard, progressing slowly (7)

5d

Westminster unknowns taking heart to allege fraud (7)

7d

Sign to get up, having succeeded getting down (5)

8d

PM's end historically comes in short scuffle (9)

9d

Plug vainly away at course involving lashings of meat? (4,1,4,5)

14d

Eating heartily, and settling for the night? (7,2)

16d

Sleepers keep moving about, finally peaceful in rest (6-3)

18d

Who to go to for better advice? (7)

19d

In dreadful cold, put over extremely short works in theatre (7)

22d

Like St Paul's work by sea (5)

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24d

For dissection, sent a part of body (5)

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