Times Cryptic #27180

2018-10-27

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Across

1a

Sacks returned for final part of letters (5)

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4a

Weaving carpet and matting would surely defeat me (3-6)

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9a

Peace created by fog and frost by a river (9)

10a

This trailer is a water container (5)

11a

Just know Eskimos will have little time inside (6)

12a

Way for London to lose its attraction and shopping centre (4,4)

14a

Round campanula flower turned back in present flowering plant (9)

16a

Bluff chap (5)

17a

Will possibly sounds like a small child (5)

19a

Girl group with European dance number (9)

21a

Large wild agaves adjacent to sierra resort (3,5)

22a

Man and woman creating fine woollen cloth (6)

25a

Way to change one's view when queen enters (5)

26a

Prickly, good for temperature, as most desert crops are (9)

27a

Some rowing about agreement with king's order to forces (4,5)

28a

Fail with a Japanese poem (5)

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Down

1d

Dish for a European spread is in character, mostly (7,8)

2d

Right to give out pardon (5)

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3d

What's established during a number of Christmases? (7)

4d

Weak object loses its end (4)

5d

Small flat pastry with fruit? Sin coming up! (4-1-5)

6d

Strangely genial Conservative is exceptionally kind (7)

7d

Reason for action about America? No, it's over (9)

8d

Film a red car for novel adaptation outside suspect café in Oxford location (9,6)

13d

Prophet's hurrying to give an example of joint endeavour (3,7)

15d

Member misses deadline to vote through law (9)

18d

Challenged traveller in space series killing star king and queen (7)

20d

Girl is cross over ending of benefit (7)

23d

Merged group of four banks in the City (5)

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24d

Run in Oscar Wilde, perhaps for a court order (4)