Times Cryptic #27830

2020-11-24

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Across

1a

People putting on plays including grand shocks (8)

9a

Very fine inhaler I misused (8)

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10a

Handle blow, retreating (4)

11a

Look into organised group intending to be obstructive (6-6)

13a

Following music, look at prominent organ (3-3)

14a

Cleopatra was girly in the extreme in brief fancy panties (8)

15a

Halves of beer to begin with one's put round party (7)

16a

Journalist's announcement to create awe (7)

20a

What can refresh one's day, coming in mostly sluggish (8)

22a

Respectful gesture as second warning may be heard (6)

23a

On call, not every girl: certainly no aristocrat (7-5)

25a

Name: Hilary, for example (4)

26a

Scheme by one engineer after attack artillery repulsed (8)

27a

Only Charlie is beginning to make an embarrassing mistake (8)

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Down

2d

Food baked brown, the first thing to open? (8)

3d

Rubbish ravenously eatenI approve (12)

4d

Former adversary deprived of work, a symbol of power (8)

5d

Show horror as southern half of Yorkshire town wiped out (7)

6d

Distress as inspector for example crosses motorway (6)

7d

Young woman shorn of resistance finally consented: don't do this to Lily! (4)

8d

Awful about deaththey hang (8)

12d

Given a turn newly on a rota in committee, at first like Pre-Raphaelite painting (12)

15d

Albatross, for one, is out of sorts (5,3)

17d

About to open grape juice and the Spanish wine (8)

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18d

After temperature's dropped, arrange prizes for facing the waves (8)

19d

Pretty girls having twinges after exercising (7)

21d

It may need clipping again, left wild (6)

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24d

Book presenting facts: not the first time (4)