Times Cryptic #27749

2020-08-21

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Across

1a

One serving cooked meal: it's eaten very warm (6,6)

9a

Hard nuts cracked by unknown group of stars (5)

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10a

Company at sea drink a nutritious substance (9)

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11a

Bit of smoke's back in top piece of lab kit (4-4)

12a

Return of banknote, which may be in Leicester, say (6)

13a

Show competitors where to fly a kite? (8)

15a

Ideal sample of medicine, decoction from the east (6)

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17a

This person's about to enter a shade abrasive (6)

18a

Hostility's accepted if not a sin (8)

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20a

Getting mobile, men are to call another way (6)

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21a

Material from the web, or feasible plan to keep a lot back (8)

24a

Maybe crude part in hissy fit? I'm not sure (9)

25a

Note wheels by motorway (5)

26a

What may pick up fool with no work, feeling pressure to return (12)

Down

1d

Sage Derby, say, swallowed by lady with issue (7)

2d

Overly broad daughter is cutting finger (14)

3d

Tear a strip off a piece of meat (5)

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4d

Try to avoid payment for amphibian (8)

5d

Socially, oddly withdrawn and unctuous (4)

6d

Constituent of soap tablet, equally gentle (4,5)

7d

Spanish edict sister spies me breaking soon (14)

8d

Repeat my words over a kind of medicine (6)

14d

Put out half of modest income, sadly (9)

16d

Playing well, accompanying Queen's singer? (8)

17d

Flourish every year, getting hit hard (6)

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19d

Vehicle lifted pieces for workers on track (7)

22d

Island nation's losing a part of Greece (5)

23d

Head from German city, going north, not east (4)