Times Cryptic #27885

2021-01-27

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Across

1a

Stole from cupboard finally put on bishop in formal dress (6)

4a

Break up day with snarled-up traffic (8)

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10a

Refined rough girl, slim-waisted (9)

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11a

Sprinted, heading off being tracked down (5)

12a

Store to have to keep one in always for Christmas, say (4,7)

14a

Two bits left smoother (3)

15a

Being agitated may be a source of quarrels (7)

17a

French city boundaries visited by ambassador (6)

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19a

Hopeless sort of case one finally checks out? (6)

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21a

When one knocks out November, calendar gets less complicated (7)

23a

Son has left aforementioned charity (3)

24a

Analysing joining the cast? (6,5)

26a

Doctor short Panorama feature (5)

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27a

I'm wearing green, following party instructions (2-7)

29a

Level an area for building? It depends (8)

30a

Axes regularly pronounced in surplus (6)

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Down

1d

A lot to drink as engineers tramp over a mile (8)

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2d

Bear being bowled? Disaster (5)

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3d

Say, good source of protein (3)

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5d

Prisoner, maybe, one of an exclusive group (7)

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6d

Go faster, say, translating a trilogy (7,4)

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7d

One presenting an unwelcome task left incomplete by crew (9)

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8d

Swallowing 10cl, neat, may make one this? (6)

9d

Screw top of jar I dropped into real mess (6)

13d

A cat may be very nervous (4,7)

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16d

Sort of door sadly unproved to secure area (2-3-4)

18d

Assembly workers eating the last of their fried food (8)

20d

On application obtain perhaps licence to kill (4,3)

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21d

Airline no longer flying over a country (6)

22d

Intensify struggle over stupid person abandoning pet (4,2)

25d

A month's said to be stunning (5)

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28d

Happens to be over ten? Apparently not (3)