Times Cryptic #26848

2017-10-05

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Across

1a

Means of accommodating baby's exuberant conduct? (4,5)

6a

Spread from union journal kept back (5)

9a

Regularly launch into tunneller's underground entrance (7)

10a

Wretched idler not pruning old bit of plant (7)

11a

Short drinkers may relish this distorted sound (3)

12a

Intricate craft displayed in novel Eliot penned (11)

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14a

Some not in US army, maybe, returning to claim benefits? (4,2)

15a

Where pupils get together a learner's relaxed (8)

17a

Catholic in action trashed drug (8)

19a

Furious criminal KO'ing one copper? (6)

22a

Climber wants sweetheart to care for (11)

23a

Device for stopping strike (3)

25a

Doctor west of desert heading off light rain (7)

27a

Group in department ran chemistry block (7)

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28a

Abandon fight (5)

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29a

Rode briskly round lake, keeping horse restrained (9)

Down

1d

Bard in region's capital (5)

2d

Drinks, say, containing trace of natural stimulant (7)

3d

British territory using top foreign currency: yen (5,6)

4d

Some of our ancestors, needing exercise, agreed to box (6)

5d

Disconcerting seaman holds officer up (8)

6d

Intelligencesomething parents pass on, mostly (3)

7d

Theory from revolutionary Frenchman with half a dozen sheep? (7)

8d

Rats count on dogs being heard (9)

13d

Outstanding rhetoric in support of underground system? (11)

14d

Cook uses hands to provide protection from heat (9)

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16d

Pernicious decree slashing French wine output, ultimately (8)

18d

Increasingly sexy queen more accessible when husband's away... (7)

20d

Love mate to accept credit with king out of sight (7)

21d

Curry, possibly fish, with minimum of rice (6)

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24d

Orator's prosecuted for fraud (5)

26d

Nothing close up to tear (3)