Times Cryptic #27161

2018-10-05

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Across

1a

A new hair preparation finds backer for production (5)

4a

Release detective's service details in printed form (9)

9a

Fresh maid organised beer and stout (9)

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10a

Fine fish scraps (5)

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11a

Means of measuring residue on vault (6,7)

14a

Article fifty covered by Times well (4)

15a

Land taken from previous county, in part hard to manage (10)

18a

Great unorthodox priest's last sermon due (10)

19a

Detailed plan to protect pound is futile (4)

21a

Additional levy resulting from attack on fighting force (7,6)

24a

Save used tart, we're told (5)

25a

Retiring storyteller, sedate, skirting a bar to avoid accidents (9)

27a

Today's journalist held out (9)

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28a

Energy required in violent exercise (5)

Down

1d

Those attending function entertained by jazzmen, bishop having left (10)

2d

African nomad's regular display of genius (3)

3d

A source of roar in wild cat? (6)

4d

Required tax limit (4-5)

5d

Shall we put up with a boarding pirate? (5)

6d

Troops recently formed line (8)

7d

Monarch once imprisoning queen upset senior investor (11)

8d

Beyond redemption at sea (4)

12d

Shifting end of rack, restore all detachable footwear (6,5)

13d

Richly adorned Eastern believer eclipsed by lovely daughter (10)

16d

Laboured badly crossing very wide city street (9)

17d

Reluctantly admit Dickensian's supporting petition (8)

20d

Dog kept cutting inside pig (6)

22d

Metal bar obscuring other exhibits (5)

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23d

Cold fruit flake (4)

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26d

A church provides one (3)

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