Times Cryptic #26895

2017-11-29

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Across

1a

Said goodbye, embarrassed about fishy preparation (7)

5a

Hunter, swift steed, second to front (7)

9a

Makes more impressive clothes more expensive (7,2)

10a

Stopped losing head, and relaxed (5)

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11a

Dash just across line (5)

12a

Article is worked on (9)

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14a

Getting on train for Eton, say (8,6)

17a

Regular carrier beginning at Badminton? (7,7)

21a

Sick Asian nursing a broken leg brings relief (9)

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23a

Fleece supplier a shopping centre rejected (5)

24a

Beef not cooked in rind of bacon (5)

25a

Start to hold forth about one spirit (9)

26a

Pull swimmer back downwind (7)

27a

Refusal from Berlin to host bike races, golf and fishing (7)

Down

1d

Arrange overdraft provided in county's banks (6)

2d

Plant publication about European duck (7)

3d

Abandon reduced price for foreign jumper (6,3)

4d

Checks on small coaches (11)

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5d

Drop one in without issue (3)

6d

Old book marks popping up in Vile Bodies (5)

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7d

Teacher brought up possible German course (7)

8d

Taunt English after understandable Irish Rising (8)

13d

A good church attendance, not to do Mass (11)

15d

Polite tip that's given to royals (5,4)

16d

One sultan resolved to capture British port (8)

18d

Erect a pale in river in the dark (7)

19d

Bread and some butter included in tea (7)

20d

Good-for-nothing ordered goods (3,3)

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22d

Sail east then north into former colony (5)

25d

Queen upset losing island rum (3)