Times Cryptic #26708

2017-04-25

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Across

1a

Sound content about hunt for customer (9)

6a

Part of film about black revolutionary (5)

9a

Engineers were effective turning round river (5)

10a

Snarls as gentle knight is wounded (9)

11a

Queen briefly embraced by sister, a tiny thing (7)

12a

I lead the congregation, in short? That's laying it on thick (7)

13a

Allow flesh to form a hard mass? Cynical remark (3,4,3,4)

17a

People of remarkably elitist leaning? (14)

21a

Problems are over for Darwin (7)

23a

A twist for animal in the case (7)

25a

Quickly cooked one thrown in raw after first being prepared (4-5)

26a

Pair of birds, perhaps, cold in the hillside (5)

27a

Punches perhaps thrown here in area of the kidneysthat's out of line (5)

28a

Rumour of fruit and what it becomes in French and English (9)

Down

1d

Obviously with resignation one has to go (8)

2d

Fiddle restaurant expenses, being extremely careful to have only a starter in each (5)

3d

Small garden supports heroin? That's said to be lucky (9)

4d

Bone in breast or back, I'm not sure (7)

5d

Filled with sulphur, one that collects light wine (7)

6d

Quickly create wordplay that's raised after sport (3-2)

7d

Villain's evil son breaking into vehicles (4,5)

8d

City snobs, ill-mannered, spinning bottles (6)

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14d

Not confident local, not having opened, has laid wine on (9)

15d

Two firms taking in new officer (9)

16d

With which one looks helpless? (5,3)

18d

Durable, as batsman number eleven is good (7)

19d

Four-figure sum given to virtually crazy old woman (7)

20d

Small boy's poking damaged ear, somewhere near canal (3,3)

22d

First to make a decree that's cut off sinister group (5)

24d

Some paint on one American native (5)

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