Times Cryptic #27821

2020-11-13

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Across

1a

Scottish girl out to lunch with graduate in Asian city (9)

6a

Cool Italian banker's thick-skinned customer (5)

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9a

Pink slate (5)

10a

Survived the heat, presumably weakened (9)

11a

Informally, offering crowd view, after stripping (7)

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12a

Heavy weight transported by our trains once (7)

13a

Play being about fashion, time to bury old hat! (3,7,4)

17a

Battered beef so dodgyafter this? (4-6,4)

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21a

Waves approaching one's teachers, meeting each (4,3)

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23a

System which pays out with interest, that's handy for shoppers? (4,3)

25a

Battle alone to cross Ireland, pursuing female (9)

26a

Beach where maiden wears nothing, I see! (5)

27a

Spooner's requirement held aloft, reflecting needs (5)

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28a

Excessively particular lover of old ham sandwiches (9)

Down

1d

Dark blotches most likely stop skin developing (8)

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2d

Lavatory, not for all, in usethen free (5)

3d

Work as seamstress, maybe, for a time (9)

4d

Live target? We might pass on that! (7)

5d

Duke not prepared to stop building tower (7)

6d

One piece by queen in drag, failing to finish lines (5)

7d

Girl, not the first, French teacher quietly upset (9)

8d

Companies sometimes marching, sometimes standing (6)

14d

Stared at and, yes, cried aloud (9)

15d

Score, and I will secure this game (6-3)

16d

Pepper for one's cooking gran set close to stove (8)

18d

Maxine wandering round out of her mind (2,5)

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19d

Issue uniform in Officer Training Corps Cockney's in (7)

20d

Carve letters in Greek and English one spelled out (6)

22d

Smooth kid, maybe summoned to court lassie ultimately (5)

24d

Virginia with endless high fibre food that's good for her (5)