Times Cryptic #26689

2017-04-03

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Across

1a

Seabird beginning to get out of breath, apparently (7)

5a

Quid secures a second nut (6)

8a

Mean to keep a single one from a large brood in litter (9)

9a

Take run from end to start of external path (5)

11a

Poor Tom raged madly (5)

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12a

Bogus instrument stopping short, the Irish party on (7-2)

13a

Unspecified item that I can do better than you in Berlin (8)

15a

Paper that reflects one's views? (6)

17a

Make most of young person's cape (6)

19a

With bribe, mean to grab a place to live (8)

22a

Agreement best rejected? It may be squeezed (9)

23a

What students may acquire, having taken in university, for start of career perhaps (5)

24a

Point of name given to Norse deity (5)

25a

Swearing needs constant replacing with new, to be original (9)

26a

Estuary English lacking in harsh north (6)

27a

Engineers alter small screen (7)

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Down

1d

Such hair appalspretend that's fashionable (6-3-4)

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2d

Patsy, stay beside sink (4,3)

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3d

Champion has split from wife in secret (5)

4d

Shovelling pounds into stomach, man shows this? (8)

5d

Agree to play trick on scoundrel (6)

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6d

Youth needs one place in train (9)

7d

These days, gold underpinning unit of currency in republic (7)

10d

Former head restrains insolent humour, being courted for knowledge (6,7)

14d

Deer sprint round back of broken barrier (9)

16d

Pastry case that firm makes (8)

18d

One spreading disease died in botched crime (7)

20d

Solicited, one threw up outside (7)

21d

Underling working under car (6)

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23d

Hearing of Alice's cat café (5)