Times Cryptic #26861

2017-10-20

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Across

1a

One way to expand MP's permit (7)

5a

Capital college (2,5)

9a

Memorable dog having left for second (3-6)

10a

Fruit tree separated from fruit (5)

11a

Openly belittle OCD advice to quilt maker? (3,4,2,4)

13a

Overturning beer ban, is a French writer (8)

15a

Trapped in yard, you say? (6)

17a

Mistake rued, partly retracted in bingo? (6)

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19a

Conservative puts away records (6,2)

22a

Drink no longer available in canteens—it changed (7,6)

25a

Move first to last in middle ground (5)

26a

Edited liberal article about Fonteyn, perhaps (9)

27a

Pet survey cut short by obligation (7)

28a

The largest bird withers inwardly (7)

Down

1d

Biblical book, unknown in time (4)

2d

Tart in live performance initially reversing vehicle (7)

3d

Grass with post-crime police activity (5)

4d

Keep interrupting row about updated component (8)

5d

Steadfast astronaut losing limb (6)

6d

Heroine of German agreement accommodating nothing Franco ordered (4,2,3)

7d

Expecting to double power for making transatlantic flight? (7)

8d

Categorise abstract poetry in abridged guide (10)

12d

What could spawn new desires, for example (10)

14d

Large well-known store ruined immediately (4,1,4)

16d

Pitch isn't black when it's this (8)

18d

Minister yet again to hold back (7)

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20d

Local name for land I found in small strip (7)

21d

Balanced stock book getting put away (6)

23d

Commentator's wrongly felt for all the runners (5)

24d

Massive stop after start is annulled (4)