Times Cryptic #27947

2021-04-09

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Across

1a

Minute spinner played best (6)

4a

They boast they've at last achieved firsts (8)

10a

Conflict appearing regularly at the heart of newswriting in capitals? (5,3,3)

11a

Victorian perhaps linked with books primarily (3)

12a

Dracula, perhaps, put on a cape, one in red or black? (7)

14a

Flash Police Sergeant displaying muscle (7)

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15a

Date with old female I persuade to make a special effort (2,3,2,4,3)

17a

Coward's work in November storm, throwing wobbly (3,11)

21a

Plant agents to catch one up early (7)

22a

Impossible to find who's originally featured in drama once before (7)

23a

In which to be either bored or excited? (3)

24a

Show how un-English is honest criticism (4,7)

26a

Sticky substance is green, with something served as starter (8)

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27a

Tin, about to be returned, containing yellow kipper we hear (6)

Down

1d

Be disputatious and pushy, displaying some craft (3,5)

2d

Trouble when overlooking the fourth estate? (3)

3d

Defence in question again (7)

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5d

Equip exhibition centre with computers, block finally to be carpeted (3,2,2,3,4)

6d

Revolutionary nature film's set in Middle-earth (7)

7d

Make bears, maybe, behave like hawks? (5-6)

8d

Picking on the large model, unknown one's brought in (6)

9d

Writing in Express, a top football official's taken up religion (14)

13d

A musical director, I'm involved with orchestra (11)

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16d

One maybe giving drug in city to junior nurses (8)

18d

Restless auk flew erratically (7)

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19d

Journalist's cardinal sin cancelling home visits (7)

20d

Sacred creature, originally Egyptian? (6)

25d

Repairs, on and off, getting attention (3)