Times Cryptic #27632

2020-04-07

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Across

1a

4 cut by ring on sailor's hand (8)

5a

Move smoothly as rowing teams in sound (6)

8a

Inclined to punish vice with rector corrupt (10)

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9a

Baker, having finished, runs out at noon (4)

10a

Outline of duties for which patient may be employed? (3,11)

11a

Earn an award, given by queen in royal residence (7)

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13a

Perhaps mobile, with its case, producing little sound (7)

15a

Lawsuit involves rotter in dramatic fall (7)

18a

Sit awkwardly with a man, revealing bottom (7)

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21a

As prosecutor be prepared for bribe (1,3,2,8)

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22a

In Herculaneum I'm inside sewer, doomed (4)

23a

Irish writer succeeded in London college (10)

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24a

Facing archdeacon, counterpart appearing powerless (6)

25a

Pomegranate syrup's missing in pineapples (8)

Down

1d

Disease got from hair on rabbit (7)

2d

Details not fleshed out? (4,5)

3d

Futile to economise? (7)

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4d

Return key with one caught opening drawer (7)

5d

Cruel remark makes fox and rat swap tails (5,4)

6d

Impractical if fine vessel capsizes, blocking cross-channel one (7)

7d

Something in chest to check when entertaining wild run (7)

12d

One's experienced men only in later years coming round (3,6)

14d

Russian fighter in East, respected, went from country (9)

16d

Greed, for starters, and resulting in a wicked habit (7)

17d

Summer treat best to keep cold (4-3)

18d

Poet is writer held by revolutionary communists (7)

19d

Protein book now available at bookshop? (7)

20d

Blockhead is joining Eliot, perhaps, in seconds (7)