Times Cryptic #26673

2017-03-15

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Across

1a

Bitter's coldrelief all round (4)

4a

Curious cutting one day will become familiar (10)

9a

Try and do something assured in performance (3,7)

10a

Tongue rarely used in kiss by husband (4)

11a

Short note lawyer returned promptly, as example (6)

12a

Never what one finds in defective Monopoly? (2,6)

14a

Unfeeling, but less so than one or two, say? (4)

15a

What would be left, see, at one's perishing? (4,6)

17a

Loud, large people in red? The way to create colourful display (6,4)

20a

Female monitor, maybe, losing way (4)

21a

Grounds for these assumptions? (8)

23a

Record-breaking crime is down (6)

24a

Chief magistrate having party for one returning (4)

25a

Far from happy band of factory workers? (4-6)

26a

Energy makes good bowler perhaps fulfil promise, unexpectedly? (3,4,3)

27a

Worry, with faint-hearted Tories looking left (4)

Down

2d

Host trailer for popular event (5,6)

3d

Detectives lifted chief crook in formal attire (6,3)

4d

Girl's arrest in winding lane (7)

5d

Tom's mate? Rarely is he in Henry's team (5,2,3,5)

6d

Man on mission having a craving not to booze? (7)

7d

Guide finally set bucket down (5)

8d

Sink about ten with one pot (5)

13d

Famous picture of Nazi fiddling with necktie (7,4)

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16d

Calls for flogging, note, diminished, for consuming alcohol (9)

18d

Annoy, when pinching little brother or sister's comic (7)

19d

Angry the Queen maybe gets called without warning (7)

21d

Minister in service flat with engineers (5)

22d

Crew's stress after leader's gone off (5)