Times Cryptic #27102

2018-07-28

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Across

1a

Bright wife, Russian woman from the east (5)

4a

What's left is due to get pickled in alcohol (8)

8a

Player of instruments, one group of notes first (14)

10a

Did train cut around borders of Ecuador? (9)

11a

Serious Irish novelist hasn't finished (5)

12a

Make popular organ stop at first (6)

14a

Bachelor having lost weight is a villain (8)

17a

Edging from the best pastry chef? (8)

18a

Single month, November or August? (6)

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20a

Round motorway, I see US city (5)

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22a

Soldier not drinking with one Italian poet (9)

24a

Frown on policeman's face (14)

25a

Scrap metal plating thus put on aircraft (8)

26a

Taste skin of succulent date (5)

Down

1d

Complaint to hotelfeast is awful (8,4)

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2d

Injured leg broken by car without front bumper (5)

3d

Sally is on drugs, after whiskey (9)

4d

Concerned with tax break (6)

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5d

Old, dishy models in second-rate fashion (8)

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6d

Men charge, capturing duke (5)

7d

Remove cover from horsedislodge man astride it (9)

9d

Not accommodating endlessly travelling fellow (12)

13d

New media star put on stage, say (9)

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15d

Sort of coffee and fruitcake for a snack (9)

16d

Mean to develop The Times's charms (8)

19d

Maybe a little salt, holding back in fast food (6)

21d

Is one seen in Hampden Park tie? (5)

23d

Aussie can start to travel, visiting US city (5)