Times Cryptic #27900

2021-02-13

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Across

1a

Shabby party dress emerged, inside out (3-5)

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5a

Aussie state nurses rest in the heat (6)

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9a

Son involved in accident filling in new form wrongly (8)

10a

PM ready to drive off on course, keeping left? (6)

12a

What runner with handicap does is significant (7,6)

15a

Inappropriate female introduced to squad (5)

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16a

Find terms of legacy weird (9)

17a

Solid shell of turtle breaking down rapidly (9)

19a

Second regular migrant back on board (5)

20a

Unreliable way of painting people unlikely to be "detailed" (13)

22a

Flower buds preserved for larks? (6)

23a

Threatening relative outside home (8)

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25a

Precise moment (6)

26a

Man barred from execution, inevitably (8)

Down

1d

No firm going to produce resistant wall feature? (4,6)

2d

Turned up to give talk (3)

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3d

One doesn't believe in theft (7)

4d

Argued contrarily as topless relations advanced (12)

6d

Possibly two or three for one in Bury (7)

7d

Extremely large spots itch horribly, most in patches (11)

8d

Fell over line making intricate jump (4)

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11d

Recent burst in ladies troubled delegate to local authority (12)

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13d

Consider training pet for uncle (7,4)

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14d

Year in company great, on the whole (2,3,5)

18d

Something shameful done in uprising, the speaker admitted (7)

19d

Singular lady's providing force for lawman (7)

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21d

Penny extracted from villain's fraud (4)

24d

Seaman from south shunned by despot (3)