Times Cryptic #27862

2020-12-31

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Across

1a

Can't hope to change something in Whitehall (8)

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9a

Naive, taking no coin to pub (8)

10a

Author's appeal to remain (8)

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11a

Stop-go manoeuvre in snow (4,4)

12a

St Paul's type, perhaps, man racked with tension (10)

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14a

Passing mention had effect on nothing (4)

15a

Plainly written name in iced cake (2,5)

17a

Poet in turn welcomed by fat cat (7)

21a

Verse with a line to alter (4)

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22a

Innovators recycling DNA at grave (5-5)

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23a

Member of drug squad? No, another branch (5,3)

25a

Behind this door, books are essential (8)

26a

Shape up to buy a suitcase (3,1,4)

27a

Avoided players given cards at ground (8)

Down

2d

Forcing payment without a fight (8)

3d

Unusual exam conceals one trap (8)

4d

Old ship's slow movement leaving loch (4)

5d

Woman's clothes said to be shaggy (7)

6d

Detention of gunman finally in act of disposing of body (10)

7d

In shadow, exercise without feeling the power in the sun? (8)

8d

Off on holiday here, stuck originally between two short men? (8)

13d

Part of vital passage where island crop is transported (6,4)

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15d

Imagine no end of malice against one guru (8)

16d

Brother briefly security-checked in ship (8)

18d

Possible source of Conference's sparkling repartee (4,4)

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19d

At a certain angle, church is gleaming (8)

20d

Record one bogey at the start holding golfers upin play, one's squeezed (7)

24d

Sweet, part of lunch occasionally? (4)

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