Times Cryptic #26855

2017-10-13

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Across

1a

Sweetener and tea bag in cups (9)

6a

Scottish council keep us in suspense, dismissing leader (5)

9a

Set down outside hotel, briefly went wandering (7)

10a

Routine trip organised, following exploit (4,3)

11a

Congestion likely here: take train? (5,5)

12a

Group of females don't speak for long (4)

14a

Punished after withdrawing shelter provided (5)

15a

A winsome, inconstant, Romeo? (9)

16a

Break promises to pay after girl becomes animated (9)

18a

Court poet, somewhat showy at times (5)

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20a

Sore about hotel charging indeed! (4)

21a

Grand players evidently having won by say more than a whisker (3,7)

25a

The writer's quiet on the subject of artistic technique (7)

26a

As birds of prey wheeling round, we must hide (3-4)

27a

Fellow quickly went about banishing the third duke (5)

28a

Work with skin X-ray timed badly (9)

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Down

1d

Secure and consequently, it's reported, cheerful (3,2)

2d

Check privy to put outside good arrangement of locks (7)

3d

Success is on the cards, then fall (3,3,4)

4d

Do for weakling with salvo, finally (3,2)

5d

Celebrity couple's split (4,5)

6d

Bar's ten beer bottles (4)

7d

Our digs fit for a king once (7)

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8d

Hospital dared to cross the heart of the military establishment (9)

13d

Went ballooning and did winter sport? (10)

14d

I have quiet words with female on the game (4-1-4)

15d

Disadvantage involving lover, ultimately, got girlfriend upset also (5-4)

17d

Eva's PhD dispatched in the form of a letter (1-6)

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19d

Devoured fiction, reading maybe in studio (7)

22d

Sailors regularly intervening in fight in city borough (5)

23d

Unhealthy-looking girl, type to avoid exercise classes (5)

24d

Man maybe upset woman refused tip (4)