Times Cryptic #26887

2017-11-20

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Across

1a

Crack, angle to one side (4)

3a

One minding one's own businessa fishmonger? (4,6)

9a

A part of the nose is cut (7)

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11a

Unfashionable lines make better fashion design (7)

12a

Entwined, a moonlit scene ultimately passionate (9)

13a

Fool recalled note played sweetly (5)

14a

Use a match well! (6,1,5)

18a

No oil painting, and incapable of drawing? (12)

21a

Bright metallic element, blue (5)

22a

With piano gone, pair playing large keyboard instrument (4,5)

24a

Cheeky couple after party gifts (7)

25a

Suspicion held by leader about Liberal (7)

26a

Speed trap? (10)

27a

Rejection of noted formula for food thickener (4)

Down

1d

Come across dancers in vacant trance (8)

2d

Something clarified about male left on ship (8)

4d

Cinema showing extract from episode one (5)

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5d

Magnificent old lover recoils when shot (9)

6d

Where the hands go continuously (5,3,5)

7d

Spit in drink (6)

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8d

Jacketdope in it? (6)

10d

Cryptically as is brew, a terrible non-alcoholic liquid? (8,5)

15d

Bully into a gripping history course (9)

16d

Partner for dining often welcoming outsiders in grand American party (8)

17d

Youth has eaten wrong half of Frankfurter, perhaps? (8)

19d

Chance money order (6)

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20d

Earth, say, where flower perhaps stores energy (6)

23d

Characteristic purpose (5)

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