Times Cryptic #26883

2017-11-15

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Across

1a

Wood producer placing shaft on cape (8)

5a

Like taxes, if backed, go up mostly (6)

10a

Gasometer redeveloped as retail outlet (9)

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11a

Figure representing a whole style, not the first one (5)

12a

A swelling fashion lacks line (4)

13a

What might save wood that's split by axe? (9)

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15a

Needing to get drunk, the Boar Inn is constantly in mind (2,3,5)

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17a

Rebuke on losing cape and cloak (4)

19a

Request to have regular meetings with king (4)

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20a

Choreographic numberabout 100 in Hamlet, perhaps (5,5)

22a

I clash with mob running all over the shop (9)

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24a

Lunéville, on reflection, oddly neglected place (4)

26a

Opera stars (5)

27a

Confess and talk about sex repeatedly (4,2,3)

28a

Endless oriental festival (6)

29a

Attitude I take on God (8)

Down

1d

Te Deum, say, not conveying the ecstasy of God? (4)

2d

Eurostate shrugs off a means of making substitutions for English (6,9)

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3d

Top banana viewed is not looking straight (4-4)

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4d

Cold potato? Fine (5)

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6d

Fiends in India trapping small bear (6)

7d

Easy consumer items that some might see as lootable? (11,4)

8d

Quickly look up in compartment for flight attendant? (10)

9d

Style of Sheraton built in Atlanta, perhaps (8)

14d

Sees herons flying, showing ability to be level-headed (5,5)

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16d

Digs up with spades always moving? (8)

18d

A short hold-up I had coming down over European city (8)

21d

Competent nurses are there initially to do surgical removal (6)

23d

Unfinished heap of stones round major Egyptian site (5)

25d

Shock upset when golf is cancelled (4)