Times Cryptic #27944

2021-04-06

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Across

1a

Reportedly go stealthily after a wading bird (5)

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4a

Position of titled person touring Eton by car (9)

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9a

Articles by retired chap about Brussels club? (9)

10a

Rough path taking zigzag course across river (5)

11a

Badger about to leave African capital by ship (6)

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12a

Touchy about curtailed partya mockery! (8)

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14a

Fussy detail (10)

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16a

Research establishment backing a Welsh lake (4)

19a

Chinese currency your aunt regularly used (4)

20a

Youth's rise incorporating state benefit (10)

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22a

Classical composernamely Parry, perhaps? (8)

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23a

A songbird, or a couple of bovines, do we hear? (6)

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26a

Girl's ultimately regretful feeling (5)

27a

Spiritless detainee an Italian leader imprisoned (9)

28a

E.g. James Stuart, an indulger in make-believe? (9)

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29a

Devout head of Giggleswick strangely lacking in heart (5)

Down

1d

Cheerfully casual friends from south very quietly lying in cut grass (4-5)

2d

Alternative books originally recommended by governor (5)

3d

Position of top man back at last in grand vessel (8)

4d

Brought up cash for speaker? (4)

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5d

Striking, like schoolwork submitted a second time? (10)

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6d

Indigenous trees primarily planted in green (6)

7d

Change coaches delayed leaving India (9)

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8d

Disgusting yobs upsetting kindly Kent youths at first (5)

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13d

Precocious child supported by family in outskirts of Watford (10)

15d

A door she used at first moving around wayside inn (9)

17d

Holding line, it rarely disturbed gunners (9)

18d

Presumptuous fool with posh Chinese porcelain (8)

21d

Wear down painter finally settled in Lincoln (6)

22d

Slosh around a county bordering on Wales once (5)

24d

Specific type of dramatic poem Ibsen wrote (5)

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25d

Just a tree outside (4)

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