Times Cryptic #27805

2020-10-26

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Across

1a

Key area, watering hole (5,3)

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6a

Worn out, quiet cat dropping head (6)

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9a

Cloth cutter, reportedly, for a beginner? (7,6)

10a

Total when innings complete? (3-3)

11a

Philanderer's limitless charm embraced by group I love (8)

13a

Utopian novel italicised (10)

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15a

Nation marked for deletion? (4)

16a

Primate mentioned briefly, dressing king (4)

18a

Adjustment made in time, spring back (4,6)

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21a

File in woodland getting lost (8)

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22a

Leave on Christmas morning, possibly with papa (6)

23a

Novelist and critic cross, furious with English city (4,5,4)

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25a

Case of Welshman bagging very wild dragon (6)

26a

Show on television initially in the money (8)

Down

2d

Cream shown in one's cups (7)

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3d

Fat tummy, big concern (11)

4d

Condemn explosion (5)

5d

Lock phone, given licence (7)

6d

Film role in bag with support of American (9)

7d

Muscles stopping system (3)

8d

Cuckoo making beastly noise (7)

12d

Soldier very bitter over identical issue getting high (11)

14d

Sad if solemn, a British dependency (4,2,3)

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17d

So distant, a buzzer in private chamber? (7)

19d

Ready to bat after opener dismissed? Seemed likely (5,2)

20d

Loco caught by travelling icon, always on the move (7)

22d

French figure that is from New Orleans, say? (5)

24d

Grain in granary, evidently! (3)

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