Times Cryptic #26676

2017-03-18

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Across

1a

Recording capital exchanges, party fudges ledgers (9)

6a

Sacred song, second to be introduced to mate before mass (5)

9a

A female splitting collection up (5)

10a

Re-open hut, possibly, with that (9)

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11a

Task ends, hemming length on stretch covers (9,6)

13a

Busybody going round with doctor's plant (8)

14a

Spare silver slipped between adjacent notes (6)

16a

Poster displaying US author (6)

18a

Hardly any, it's said, idle under Medieval system (8)

21a

Bumbling moth let out when we got it (5-4,6)

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23a

Demand for product on ground-breaking course (9)

25a

Lines bridging tiny distance forming connector (5)

26a

Each end of race precise (5)

27a

Stained metal dart ultimately pierces better (9)

Down

1d

Restrict stuff on page (5)

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2d

Having a Scotch, perhaps, en route's a weakness (11)

3d

British formed pairs, heading off in a group (7)

4d

Established novelist makes short broadcast (8)

5d

He stops believer becoming leader of another faith (6)

6d

Pawn? Come back to take it (7)

7d

Arsenic, poisoner's top killer (3)

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8d

Flash queen confined to vile single-sex establishment (9)

12d

Cash that must be taken on reform, tip included (5,6)

13d

Show enables MC to appear in new guise (9)

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15d

Proscribed part of speech frequently lacking force (8)

17d

European royal house detailed unknown form of English (7)

19d

Party men, dull, not the type to fight back (7)

20d

Alien following ship in publicly funded trip (6)

22d

Shrinking fabric finally cut up (5)

24d

Trouble's over between playing partners (3)