Times Cryptic #26852

2017-10-10

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Across

1a

After fare's cut by pound, drunk's brightened up (8)

5a

Rot from Conservative stars (6)

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9a

Commute time halved through big road opening (8)

10a

Overturned more than one schoolboy error (4-2)

12a

Maybe hear terror is what gives you a shock (4,8)

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15a

Like an egg base for taco not binding (5)

16a

One figure touring river or part of canal? (9)

18a

Win over queen's follower (9)

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19a

Bachelor's taken off woman's top, the cad! (5)

20a

Government building's aide getting wine out to chill (6,6)

24a

Where bird may be seen running and tripping? (2,4)

25a

Pet circles round track in some fine attire (4-4)

26a

Bloomers live to the west around desert (6)

27a

Impassioned bird call (8)

Down

1d

Iron-clad shell of uranium hit the roof (4)

2d

Stored in silo, a type of cereal (4)

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3d

Something easy, nursing doctor before a stroke (3,6)

4d

European football team calling for half-time? (12)

6d

Tax returns holding up a grant (5)

7d

Lordly houses very unaffected (10)

8d

Replaced top cops and media bosses (10)

11d

People generally not forgiving insolence in former warzone (7,5)

13d

In France, once, change a strongly acidic element in brass (10)

14d

Crouch down, about to pick up frame on US train (10)

17d

Legal man, then, with legal men (9)

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21d

It's almost time when I should retire (5)

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22d

Foreign land mass? Clay's beneath it (4)

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23d

Drink up to get a quid (4)