Times Cryptic #27170

2018-10-16

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Across

1a

Inclined to be difficult? (6)

5a

Not drinking: one should be eighteen? (8)

9a

I'd chain out, going free in this? (7,3)

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10a

Game personnel in industrial region (4)

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11a

Lake by dark sort of rock, in turn a place of execution (8)

12a

Pop-up blockers maybe for family film features (6)

13a

Scent left by the first travellers (4)

15a

Maybe some hope crime can be contained by grand new legal society (5,3)

18a

Alongside ox, rodent looks different (4-4)

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19a

Siren has volume and means to raise it (4)

21a

Legendary princess some feared losing has returned (6)

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23a

Losing it in the playground, this instrument? (8)

25a

Sailors looking to both starboard and port deck (4)

26a

Will perhaps follow the rules of the game, keeping wicket (10)

27a

Fishing port in distant landa change from Britain all round (8)

28a

Without turning yellow, body going all muscly (6)

Down

2d

Puff for a second (5)

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3d

Put out of home, like granny, over time (9)

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4d

Being kind of naive at first, it's going in a straight line (6)

5d

Sailor securing airmen a large, old-fashioned place in London (9,6)

6d

Special preserve of former Roman emperor, briefly married (5,3)

7d

Rowed and yelled, losing head (5)

8d

Personal maid, one Her Majesty initially ordered (2,7)

14d

At least twenty-one strike (9)

16d

Queen, perhaps, given rose, moved (9)

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17d

Book I completed, performing research (4,2,2)

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20d

Rulings used to carry more weight when order reversed (6)

22d

Elevated place in lounge mostly occupied by speakers, etc (2,3)

24d

Drama that was painful? Never! (5)