Times Cryptic #26862

2017-10-21

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Across

1a

Sticks brought back to secure pine frame (6,2)

9a

Dancer, say, to check wind instrument's returned (8)

10a

Item cut on the airwaves (4)

11a

Recalled one's true story about a process of stagnation (12)

13a

Compiler doesn't look healthy, getting stick! (6)

14a

Low-fat starter of radish around lunchtime for the discerning (8)

15a

Elucidate where animals were once kept? (7)

16a

Finished in bad place after driving, lacking energy (7)

20a

It could make you get off transport late and numb (8)

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22a

Note what can be mined in Asian city (6)

23a

Sandy rocks crossed by incompetent old criminal (4,8)

25a

Pluck guitar, instrument with nothing inside (4)

26a

Daydreaming in dunce's cap is mindless (8)

27a

Condemn the amount managers are paid? (8)

Down

2d

Snack when walking dog team around, covering miles (5,3)

3d

Rage which could lead to hot war? (5,1,6)

4d

Type of cattle break metal fences close to byre (8)

5d

Portrait appropriate to put up in mansion (7)

6d

Rising bill including cinematic effects for The Lion King? (3,3)

7d

Fairy Queen, seemingly good on the outside (4)

8d

Hold up cereal bowl (8)

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12d

Mounting kind of bubbly old horse, a source of speed (12)

15d

Gave title to book the French poet from the south pens (8)

17d

Confident thought about golfer in awful place (8)

18d

In essence, a cloth is for mechanic (8)

19d

Fashion model with it or not with it? (3-4)

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21d

Wrong score overturned in game (6)

24d

Where to see fish brought up by the thousand? (4)