Times Cryptic #26671

2017-03-13

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Across

1a

What's said to initiate shooting in battle (6)

5a

Stage performer put in the middle by company (8)

9a

Do something on course including good facility for pupils (10)

10a

Low in class, or average (4)

11a

Met expectations? (8)

12a

Officers in crew, say, put on warship (6)

13a

What could be extremely banal offering? (4)

15a

About to take off material (8)

18a

Gather round carnival site that's second-class (8)

19a

Very negative response about island such as Madeira (4)

21a

Where film goes, to be judged by audience? (6)

23a

Incorporated in publisher's royalty (8)

25a

Desire charming or malicious female, losing head (4)

26a

General and president showing where one is wrong (10)

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27a

Lawless part of Pacific rim, in Alaska (8)

28a

Those always agreeing with head of state in country (6)

Down

2d

Little room band had for large instrument (5)

3d

Elite universities in various places, including Cambridge (3,6)

4d

Country that's certainly not without monarch (6)

5d

Nothing in plan prosecutor bungled amounts to alternative idea (15)

6d

In the main, covering both sides of debate in proper way (8)

7d

Protest over bishop being put out of service (5)

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8d

Greek leader soon grabbing plucky maiden (9)

14d

Ancestral pieces rearranged in royal house (9)

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16d

Animated savage clutching his middle (9)

17d

Duplicated foreign article about venerated person, Nobel laureate (8)

20d

I had pain, ultimately, in vital organ (6)

22d

Human being altered part of Bible (5)

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24d

Dramatic incident witnessed in hearing (5)