Times Cryptic #27875

2021-01-15

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Across

1a

Tree house in Italy needs a lot of care inside (7)

5a

Some backed cappuccino, some tea (5)

9a

Tea popular in several hotels? (5)

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10a

See tsar perhaps cut by old upper-classtough (9)

11a

Swell chaps replacing us in a month (7)

12a

At sea, repeat securing unknown yachtsman's harness (7)

13a

I go in and start, somehow (10)

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15a

Pasta shell abandoned by Russian wolfhound (4)

18a

Puts on commercials on the radio (4)

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20a

Queen, regularly uneasy, thrilling as knights sought the Grail? (10)

23a

American native with a soft-soled shoe (7)

24a

Note brave men with hearts dropping in remote islands (7)

25a

Terribly nice mass, one inspired by Jesus? (9)

26a

Wood resin running short (5)

27a

A divine cut in America is antelope (5)

28a

Country set right after early euro trouble (7)

Down

1d

Seaweed in lettuce? That will cause a stink (4,3)

2d

Plain type of hospital shoots up (8)

3d

Issue of voting system abandoned by British (5)

4d

Keenly targeting goal but I aim so badly (9)

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5d

Motor on old office machine used for meeting in town (6)

6d

Developer surrounding unit with buttress (7)

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7d

Way through area on Java? (5)

8d

Nervous complaint: spies twitch it has introduced (8)

14d

To the very end of August in Paris managed empty café (1,8)

16d

Like a long journey? Yes, and so must get moving (8)

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17d

I have grub, regularly entering red channel (5,3)

19d

Directed to drop advert put on clothing (7)

21d

Small iceberg, one getting bigger outside loch (7)

22d

Serious offence outside public house by puzzler (6)

23d

Butterfly order with no northern distribution initially (5)

24d

Cape songbird down by new university (5)