Times Cryptic #27670

2020-05-21

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Across

1a

Put out pole with end disappearing in river (6)

4a

Stout knocked back with cheese? That's the stuff! (7)

9a

Inclined to be mendacious (5)

10a

Royal house near castle mostly dilapidated (9)

11a

One with negative response wins against a second person, right? (9)

12a

One of Caesar's last words, the beast! (5)

13a

Country became backward, finishing with nothing (4)

14a

Special gear enthusiast brought to plant, having crossed yard (5,5)

18a

Using a tool to shift support across hole (10)

20a

Inadequate side dish (4)

23a

Ending in jail, I am afraid of getting no answeram I there for ever? (5)

24a

A rescue organised outside very quiet capital (5-4)

25a

Cold girl getting degree, the heartless student you study with (9)

26a

Material in bathroom in short supply? (5)

27a

Cuts of meat go bad aboard ship (7)

28a

A ceremony rendered by speaker correctly (6)

Down

1d

Representatives providing instruction to get rid of barriers (9)

2d

Mostly professional gang in pre-flood operation? (7)

3d

Most wise and godly person having a long time inside (6)

4d

A number of men giving voice in concert (5)

5d

Lorries in boring county (8)

6d

Go mad in hospital department building in need of oxygen (7)

7d

A weird roofless home for bird in US (5)

8d

Mess about before social event or cooperate? (4,4)

15d

Covers food in tin with ordinary salt (8)

16d

Most genuine from the time of leading others (9)

17d

Gentleman with power rising in authentic act of revenge (8)

19d

Discourteous old worker squashing females (7)

21d

Top man in his field, perhaps, spouting? (7)

22d

To roar out? That could suit me (6)

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23d

Needs to be casual in speech (5)

24d

Mountains in pictures, miles away (5)