Times Cryptic #27201

2018-11-21

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Across

1a

Competent secretary gets in line (7)

5a

Old man's wise quotation? (7)

9a

Wife having years in depressionEdward is sort of company (6-5)

10a

Fool with brain, not large (3)

11a

Illuminating comment from a country about carbon (6)

12a

Military kit needs protective cover with line crossing lake (8)

14a

Vigorously stir potato, unusually dense for fritter time? (2,2,1,5,3)

17a

Dull university wise men, simplistic about time (13)

21a

Rude captain of a Henry VIII warship ended up here? (8)

23a

Shocked at being opened up by terrible gash (6)

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25a

Wood abandoned by black bird (3)

26a

Who will assemble things? Worker and clockmaker, not soldiers (11)

27a

Following religious education that's genuine (7)

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28a

Lifting instrument adapted to mushrooms (7)

Down

1d

Cover clothes with phosphorus, a hazard in the field (6)

2d

Put lead around dog? Let sleeping dogs lie, perhaps (7)

3d

Cold volcanic rock underlying Welsh lake becomes warmer? (9)

4d

Where one's isolated? That's up to you (4)

5d

As US DoD HQ is very severe about monitoring device working (10)

6d

Small border plant (5)

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7d

Poisonous plant, one featuring in a short story (7)

8d

Adeline's upset without fine suite of rooms (8)

13d

Right about one single kept by friend: Puppet on a String (10)

15d

Perhaps way out jazz party as an alternative (5,4)

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16d

Worked out minus is likely to bring things down? (8)

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18d

Hormone abuse, endlessly popular (7)

19d

Devious girl conceals endorsement that's turned up (7)

20d

Standing with suspect carrying cheap stuff (6)

22d

Rent pasture and vacant storehouse (5)

24d

Storey gets left out before raising top of house (4)