Times Cryptic #27809

2020-10-30

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Across

1a

Tips from writer with daughter in America (6)

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5a

Say nothing about preference for nagging (8)

9a

Weakness that's not hard to see (4,4)

10a

Being out of place in harbour, finally sailor returned (6)

11a

Transport add-on, one given to appropriate vehicles? (8)

12a

Reverses and runs down (6)

13a

Aussie skipper adding a run to total in chase (8)

15a

She had pop award reduced (4)

17a

Boy back in detention at school (4)

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19a

Hiding, maybe, in service area (8)

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20a

Moon, mostly, keeps spinning around in space (6)

21a

Dispatching letters from UN, a minor foreign correspondent? (3,3,2)

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22a

Lose track of exceptionally fine port (6)

23a

Revelation in tweet set back husbandand then some! (8)

24a

Austrian count's last letter, dark, yet animated (8)

25a

Boring article, on golf, they've permitted me (6)

Down

2d

One supplying plug for engine you can pick up? (8)

3d

Rubbish won't burn in the shade (8)

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4d

Raised a large cover over father's tree (9)

5d

Earmark hypermarket, perhaps, to give huge value (3,5,5,2)

6d

Use a lot of each colour filling in box (3,4)

7d

Home, compact in size, for the richer (2,6)

8d

Chap managed to collect medal for serving livestock owner (8)

14d

Fido at last caught, dog collar is going on (9)

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15d

Person who offers to hold case for cockney traveller (8)

16d

Maybe tick playing card in a hand, initially (8)

17d

Outside right, cunningly, apes the fellow top wingers (8)

18d

Union spent to bring in a civil engineer (8)

19d

Peel the source of this pus? (4,3)