Times Cryptic #28010

2021-06-22

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Across

1a

Pelican that's no more, unfortunately right after feline enters (8)

5a

Almost defeated accepting British weakness (6)

10a

Cox wobbling a bit? (3,4,3,5)

11a

Preserve water slide around New Year (7)

12a

An element of empty unionism on Ulster sash (7)

13a

Game in trap with strange marks and unknown (3,5)

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15a

Riddle about whiskey for Irish dean (5)

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18a

Made his Ben Hur intrinsically so long (5)

20a

What's rude? Yell is, in church (8)

23a

Settle advance payment before party (7)

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25a

Ornamental plant bed mostly eaten by injured raven (7)

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26a

Our establishment's trendy, in rear street with headgear British and European (3,6,4,2)

27a

Ireland introducing minute eastern moth (6)

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28a

Barnet fixer is hard character to control (8)

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Down

1d

Five pence out of pocket under a guarantee that's expired (6)

2d

One of the composers, ie, in Bruch, Brahms and Liszt (9)

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3d

Composer put in octave nervously (7)

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4d

Arranged quite a display (5)

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6d

Difficult individual to wake up without something in tea and coffee (7)

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7d

Mine gold initially in a lot of bedrock (4,1)

8d

Reckon one's travelling by car? (8)

9d

One appreciates what you did to a hunky cast (8)

14d

Fish thrash, rising both sides of flowing creek (8)

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16d

Wexford perhaps sent cop around in Ireland (9)

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17d

Gang in class which might be playing noisily? (8)

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19d

Hackneyed college stuff maybe is something not seen in the real world (7)

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21d

One using bait to trap chief hunting dog (7)

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22d

Stop sleeping at college after fire (4,2)

24d

Ray providing home for river fish (5)

25d

Prospect of official documentand time to fill it (5)