Times Cryptic #27151

2018-09-24

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Across

1a

I don't know where ship may be heading, or what passenger may need? (8)

5a

Correspondence course's leader wearing a tie (6)

10a

No way in, game finally remarkably short (5)

11a

Out of shape, seeking familiar placeworking out (9)

12a

Painting clasped, an original (9)

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13a

Chiefs formerly cross, by the sound of it? (5)

14a

Orange-yellow salve initially applied to slight cut (7)

16a

Old fogey, eighty-one perhaps? (6)

18a

Huge hole right behind box (6)

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20a

Ultimately, glamour all there is about it: flash Italian resort (3,4)

22a

Completely covered in straw, a shed (5)

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23a

Asian giant oak's last big acorn cracked (4,5)

25a

Aged don is awfully determined (9)

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26a

Decency in good people (5)

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27a

Negligent fail again? (6)

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28a

Bottom Irish number, reportedly? (8)

Down

1d

Optimist's carpet acquiring shine (8)

2d

All dwarfs, small and equal (5)

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3d

Swine bagged first in physics, gold mark in college (4,11)

4d

Stop the music (7)

6d

Conservative icon gets Labour rattled, almost (5,3,2,5)

7d

Large plant as it happens in books, always coming up (5,4)

8d

Process like the litmus test ends (6)

9d

Capital letters reading across from left of keyboard? (6)

15d

Strong stocking material with a safety device (4,5)

17d

Observe something other than a buzzer outside initially needed (4,4)

19d

Libertine in cap of khaki, one covered in spots (6)

20d

Work I need is yet to be rescheduled (4,3)

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21d

Run, don't walk beneath it! (6)

24d

A pair to hold up (5)