Times Cryptic #27864

2021-01-02

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Across

1a

Exacting general acceptance for coinage (4,8)

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9a

Airline's mechanics initially work well (5)

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10a

Centuries-old notes regarding golf on steppes (9)

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11a

Dismissal notice put off, keeping yours truly in Paris (8)

12a

Item stored in cellar, dry inside trunk (6)

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13a

We're told what manager does in other countries (8)

15a

Primates object when pound's replaced old pennies and shillings (6)

17a

Series of comments about keeping a number of commandments? (6)

18a

High copper tap that practitioner struggles to remove? (8)

20a

England's opening pair caught during match, producing draw (6)

21a

Secret of criminal avoiding punishment (4,4)

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24a

Confirmation of insurance number in private code at last (5,4)

25a

Play one's part again to produce a response (5)

26a

Feast on candies, say, becoming queasy (9,3)

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Down

1d

Last of those aboard must stop at sea (5,2)

2d

Touching gift set up musical agent (14)

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3d

Keen priest cleared out part of church (5)

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4d

Carpeting for five authentic houses (8)

5d

Set up monitor primarily to eliminate paper (4)

6d

Staff getting to grips with inflections of language (9)

7d

Hitch-hiker to board and not alight in border region (14)

8d

Tailender from gang entering before old bodyguard leaving (6)

14d

Lots of easy work in cracking locks (9)

16d

Works out what next in line does (8)

17d

Grasp brush, perhaps, scrubbing a pair of taps (6)

19d

Particularly nondescript bears at large (7)

22d

Roughly beneath tip of elephant's trunk (5)

23d

Fuel sanction got round by church (4)