Times Cryptic #27618

2020-03-21

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Across

1a

Mock? In a second almost comes to like Greek drama (6)

5a

In unstable state, I must avoid responsibility (8)

9a

Damaging fall in a Jersey ditch? (4,4)

10a

Look about and pull back (6)

11a

Girl rejecting dance shows bachelor out (6)

12a

Rail supporter is overwhelmed by jokes (8)

14a

We barristers' works bearing fruit (12)

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17a

With surprising delicacy, open book (12)

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20a

Weirdly unlucky defendant gets run in (8)

22a

Ring cleaner (6)

23a

Human being virtuous? About time (6)

25a

Claire regularly takes foreign language, not the right subject (8)

26a

Criminal proposal to compass death (8)

27a

First element of telephone number provides lead (6)

Down

2d

Deliver on location, as told (6)

3d

Buy good new clothes reduced in response to explosion (3,5,3)

4d

Man arrives at a lake in dense thickets (9)

5d

Extended courtesy for killer at Agincourt (7)

6d

His poetry attributed to Hubbard? (5)

7d

Stage set up (3)

8d

Novelist's revolutionary opening enthrals press (8)

13d

One can fill lots of cellsstart making a bed? (11)

15d

Source of funds to stop a pair of lifts trapping people (9)

16d

Stop work as pirate (5,3)

18d

Boat's propeller: one gets feet wet (7)

19d

Open taking this seed for a spell (6)

21d

Firm one enters changed hands (5)

24d

Almost level in match (3)