Times Cryptic #27143

2018-09-14

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Across

1a

Endlessly carp? Coming round in the end (5)

4a

Complain luxury boat is unfinished, cutting beauty (9)

9a

Champion drink, beer (9)

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10a

Ecosystem merits having this wheat planted in it (5)

11a

Depart this earthleft to disappear as soon as possible (4,3,4,2)

14a

Acquire small area for training bats? (4)

15a

Hurry upseems diaper is needed here (4,6)

18a

I reuse film running in mixer (10)

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19a

One enters level two (4)

21a

"Cast in Chains"song by The Wretches (3,2,3,5)

24a

Some island seized by Henry I (5)

25a

Outline provided by a stupid judge (9)

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27a

Carriage departed before time during endless floods, perhaps (9)

28a

Keen to eat old duck (5)

Down

1d

What keeps nurse going, perhaps German convenience food (4,6)

2d

Censure over card game (3)

3d

Son gets rather mad covered in acne (6)

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4d

Wealthier gambler not going into work (6,3)

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5d

Slow and dignified film, but not indispensible (5)

6d

Conceding Yankee playing cricket has no following (8)

7d

Pedestrian in public location (11)

8d

Mostly ancient member of a noble line (4)

12d

Big loud unit relocated in separate housing (11)

13d

Hotels mounted very intense type of water sport (10)

16d

Run home to look up family line (4,5)

17d

Like an old civilisation rains, say, destroyed (8)

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20d

Fear ferret I introduced to father (6)

22d

Fungus certainly turns up after vase is removed (5)

23d

Playwright that's taken round for a staged production (4)

26d

Difficulty of a year that never was (3)