Times Cryptic #28007

2021-06-18

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Across

1a

Urge to fight: one's content to be beaten eventually? (3-3)

5a

Rode with buggy as car started improperly? (3-5)

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9a

Valued systems regularly used in these times (8)

10a

Poorly preserved (4,2)

11a

Daring to spoon jam (10)

13a

Religious pioneer, one going against the mainstream (4)

14a

For Caesar, that is, time to depart (4)

15a

See that on a broadcast and be amazed (3,4,3)

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18a

Short fat kid visits relations (5-5)

20a

A physicist, he died after backing human rights (4)

21a

Coloured stone that's become white when removed from casing (4)

23a

Bridge repair, one very often short? (10)

25a

Eleven of Italy's fifty islandsrest over to the west (6)

26a

Give best after admitting one's disadvantage (8)

28a

French department's English staff returned to hold party (8)

29a

Extra's stage farewell (3,3)

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Down

2d

Spare, comparatively ancient, fuel tank (9)

3d

Ray washes trousers and pants (7)

4d

Letters from abroad: at least twenty two? (3)

5d

Country fellow's work in garden including digging at the margins (5)

6d

Willing to move: one is keen, let's get moving! (11)

7d

Reserve medicinesspare bottles (7)

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8d

Twenty, on leaving Guinea, acquiring horse? (5)

12d

Striking, say outside, you whip and punch (3-8)

16d

What is needed to make its dough (3)

17d

Flexible management of redesigned coach yard (9)

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19d

Singer embracing Liberal lord, everyone embraced by Count! (3,4)

20d

Fired, perhaps, after lying about being led by bishop (7)

22d

Standard way of talking up trouble in gallery (5)

24d

Yellowish ring sent up by fag (5)

27d

Duck removing foot from river (3)