Times Cryptic #26877

2017-11-08

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Across

1a

Clean bottom lip, following medic (6)

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4a

Warmer place in Wales (8)

9a

Lack of honesty old city avoided? That's not possible (2,3,2)

11a

Organ that is held in each hand, further back (7)

12a

Language family don't allow, excessively outspoken (5)

13a

Needs, somehow, to insert line, tricky without stopping (9)

14a

Staggeredso getting teeth knocked out, possibly? (10)

16a

Superior type seems noisome and obviously bourgeois, initially (4)

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19a

Old soldier on back in agony: stretcher found? (4)

20a

Weaknessold empire builder quick to conceal it (10)

22a

Monarch in clothes, striking (9)

23a

Old firefighter in commercial broadcast (5)

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25a

Gag vacuously lame, considering skirting round it? (7)

26a

A set of books inspired by remarkable island capital (3,4)

27a

Dark liquid drunk by Osage leader, native American bottles (8)

28a

Promise I've given? I don't believe it! (2,4)

Down

1d

Traveller on beach in shade, European plagued by insects (4,5)

2d

Is one's time up in Labour now, then? (2-3)

3d

After a couple of drinks, well game! (3,5)

5d

Protein-rich food source, a new green bean to eat beginning to disagree with us (8,5)

6d

Lift not working, service called in, so mended (6)

7d

Slides sliding off, it separates (9)

8d

Terminals in nine ready, five plugs wired (5)

10d

Cocky model on cover, if with slight flaw (13)

15d

Beauty smuggling a gun, short piece (9)

17d

Squeeze bone dry, if soused (9)

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18d

Can, a container of liquid drunk by bird (8)

21d

Rallying mid-morning? Not quite (6)

22d

Lowest degree, like that (5)

24d

Back with vitality in abundance (1,4)

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