Times Cryptic #28023

2021-07-07

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Across

1a

Agitator in East London ready on complex brief (9)

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6a

Important aborigine not one to accommodate Jack (5)

9a

Dignified senior to receive award (5)

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10a

Desperate to survive drop (4-5)

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11a

One's intended to bank note as money (7)

12a

Keeps quiet about a temperature showing changes (7)

13a

Some toper in pub interfered with mate (8,6)

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17a

Cultivated sort names Saracen in novel (11,3)

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21a

Greed a wicked habit that holds painter back (7)

23a

Revolutionary socialist cause in As You Like It? (2,5)

25a

Something pinned to hem in fabric (9)

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26a

Everything and nothing close to Boudicca's town (5)

27a

Honey badger's length adding to value (5)

28a

Fights about casserole containing fine seafood (9)

Down

1d

Escargots presumably not available on such menus? (4,4)

2d

Day was one men overturned skip (5)

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3d

Busy worker securing wheels needs a cold drink (6,3)

4d

Dreadful meal in time causes illness (7)

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5d

Refuse to be moved and he could receive summons! (7)

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6d

Thick fog that envelops delta (5)

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7d

Current setter involved in predicament (3,6)

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8d

Go over what appears in eruption (6)

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14d

Common little man seen in bar (9)

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15d

Farmer once in rising river amusing duck (9)

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16d

Trespass for one snaring new bird without tail (8)

18d

Coin going with shillings to make a group (7)

19d

Cunning Italian author entertains duke in style (3,4)

20d

Blade worn must have edges switched (6)

22d

Irishman puts island first with everything considered (2,3)

24d

I was in van going north touring hot capital territory (5)