Times Cryptic #27377

2019-06-14

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Across

1a

Youth shy to admit blunder (9)

6a

Copy record covers wrapped in cloth (5)

9a

Provoke Scottish footballers coming out of their shell (5)

10a

Plan to get great pies brought round (9)

11a

Ancestor of mine: the fellow isn't able to get personnel work (15)

13a

Arm wrapped around free jam (8)

14a

Continent's cold precipitation (6)

16a

Swallow picked up playfully (6)

18a

Garment fastener comes with a warning (8)

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21a

Its entrants are bound to stagger, cheered in old country (5-6,4)

23a

Subjective report on hip turning around (9)

25a

Green sort of water sent back (5)

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26a

Unaccompanied chap's sides split by joke? (5)

27a

Peels bananas with fast, misjudged motion (5,4)

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Down

1d

Astute playwright shortened kind of speech (5)

2d

Blue team member (5-6)

3d

Drag worn by right church organist (7)

4d

Not abroad bearing case (8)

5d

Line up in entrance to give twirl (6)

6d

Problem with cold vehicle needing to keep Jack hot (7)

7d

Member or Leader of Parliament, say (3)

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8d

Middle Easterner vexed about a disturbance (9)

12d

Writer finished with gold stars (11)

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13d

Mist dispersing in eatery where corn is found (9)

15d

Pure alcohol, very popular to imbibe it (8)

17d

Small person perceiving one who removes coat (7)

19d

Turning up an inheritance, bet deliberately (7)

20d

Rest of ridge covering about 500 metres in China (6)

22d

Appraise report of the writer, not lying (3,2)

24d

Topless Russian camper (3)