Times Cryptic #26813

2017-08-25

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Across

1a

Shall we start fires? (4,2)

4a

Say good woman is going to sort of finish (8)

10a

How seafood may be cooked for a month (9)

11a

Deposit nothing, there being not so much around (5)

12a

Slacken off: after store collapses, nobody gets a big rise (4,2,4,4)

14a

Wrong end of apple cake (5)

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16a

I can be silenced, that's fixed (9)

18a

Legal fee is concerning new student (9)

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20a

Promise singular sport (5)

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21a

Perhaps an unhealthy intake, as one is among gaspers (7,7)

25a

Fabric in wide opening drawer (5)

26a

Verify surprisingly tame end of game (9)

27a

African insect that flies round squares (8)

28a

Tincture cannot be good taken internally (6)

Down

1d

Temptation to keep repeat short in marketing materials (10)

2d

Suffering girl's lost hair (5)

3d

During match, muddy ground becomes yellow (7)

5d

Son bloodied, evidently, falling into this? (5)

6d

Only question heard: 'No seats left?' (4,3)

7d

River crustacean extremely loathsome and horrible (9)

8d

Survive at the end (4)

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9d

Warn a beauty to keep a date (8)

13d

Itinerant dealers coming in handy to repair files? (10)

15d

Story about fine economic policy (9)

17d

Swamps extra-short creatures (8)

19d

Noel failing to receive one Greek letter or another (7)

20d

Terrible performance in football, as drunk might be heard to say (7)

22d

Struggles to cover constant weaknesses (5)

23d

I count as mad (5)

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24d

Wound loony up (4)